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G. da Fabriano. St. Nicholas with Conventional Emblems along with Mary Magdalene,St. John, and St. George.
St. Nicholas
His Legend and His Rôle in the ChristmasCelebration and Other PopularCustoms
By
George H. McKnight
Illustrated
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1917
Copyright, 1917
BY
GEORGE H. McKNIGHT
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
PREFACE
A few years ago, while trying to trace thehistory of certain Christmas customs, I wasunavoidably brought into contact with St. Nicholas.A closer acquaintance with that amiable personalitywas the result, and acquaintance graduallydeepened into veneration and affection. In thesame year in which began my closer acquaintancewith St. Nicholas, I was so fortunate as to bebrought face to face with some of the quaintpictures in which Italian painters, with so muchcharm, have represented the various episodes inthe life of the saint. I was led to believe thatothers would enjoy the pictures, not all of themreadily accessible, and that a wider knowledge ofSt. Nicholas would greatly enlarge the circle ofhis friends. The present book was the result.
My aim has been, not to offer an exhaustivestudy of all the difficult questions that are connectedwith the name of St. Nicholas, but tobring together, from somewhat scattered sources,the elements in his life story. The kindly acts[Pg iv]recorded of him have lived in popular memoryand have flowered into some of the most generallycherished of popular customs. In St. Nicholasthe reader will come in contact with a personalityof unique amiability, whose influence has permeatedpopular customs for many centuries andhas contributed much of sweetness to human life.
My original contribution to the subject hasbeen slight. In the notes I have attempted toindicate my indebtedness to other writers, althoughthe amount of this debt I have not beenable adequately to show. To the artists whohave represented with feeling and with charmthe scenes in the life of St. Nicholas, this book ismost indebted, and for them I wish to bespeaka major part of the reader’s attention.
G. H. McK.
Columbus, O.,
July 16, 1917.[Pg v]
CONTENTS
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