Posts tonen met het label Sinterklaas. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label Sinterklaas. Alle posts tonen
donderdag 5 december 2013
zaterdag 23 november 2013
zaterdag 9 maart 2013
Sinterklaas list holder
december the 5th and we have to make
a list for that celebration. To keep our
lists nicely organised, i made this list
holder to attach our lists to.
woensdag 5 december 2012
donderdag 15 december 2011
Happy Birthday granny !
My paternal grandmother is 100 years old today !
This photograph is from ten days ago when she
was visited by Saint Nicholas.
maandag 5 december 2011
zondag 5 december 2010
donderdag 8 april 2010
.JPG)
zaterdag 5 december 2009
woensdag 18 november 2009
vrijdag 5 december 2008
Sinterklaas
The Sinterklaas feast celebrates the birthday of Saint Nicholas,
patron saint of children. Saint Nicholas was a bishop of Myra in
Turkey. Sinterklaas has a long white cape, wears a white bishop's
dress and white mitre (bishop's hat), and holds a golden staff with
a curled top. He carries a big book that tells whether each
individual child has been good or naughty in the past year.
He traditionally rides a white horse. In the Netherlands this horse
goes by the name Amerigo. In Flanders, up to the mid-20th
century, Sinterklaas was depicted using a black mule, rather
than a horse.
"Zwarte Piet," Sinterklaas' helping hand Black Pete, has his
origin in the bishop's legendary past. Three small Moorish
boys were sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit.
The bishop intervened and they were saved. To show their
gratitude, the boys stayed with Sinterklaas to help him,
tumbling and jumping on rooftops on Sinterklaas night to
deliver presents.
Their black skin may refer either to their Moorish background,
or to the job of chimneysweep, an option that is corroborated by
their clothes, reminiscent of an Italian chimneysweep's costume
and Pete's rooftop occupation.
Sinterklaas and his Black Petes usually carry a bag, which
contains candy for nice children and a "roe," a bunch of willow
branches used to spank naughty children — in actuality a
chimneysweep's broom. Some of the older Sinterklaas songs
mention naughty children being put in the bag and being taken
back to Spain.
The Zwarte Pieten toss candy around, a tradition supposedly
originating in Sint Nicolaas' story of saving three young girls
from prostitution by tossing golden coins through
their window at night to pay their father's debts.
For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
Abonneren op:
Posts (Atom)