Comments on: Future Pope’s Childhood Christmas Letter to “Baby Jesus”

By: Bernardo

Bernardo — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:45:49 +0000

In Colombia it is also Baby Jesus (el Niño Dios), though for commercial reasons Santa Claus seems to be making inroads on his turf with the current generation.

By: peg

peg — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:02:43 +0000

I lived in Austria as a child, and there, too, it was the Christ child who gave us gifts on Christmas. ST. Nicholas visited earlier in December on his feast day—he dropped by the house with his companions (an angel and Krampus, the devil) to sing some carols and to check out our behavior. He would leave gifts of candy—or coal and switches in the case of my older brothers—in the shoes we’d left outside our doors before we went to sleep.

By: Daniel Silliman

Daniel Silliman — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:35:12 +0000

A relevant cultural fact: in Germany, it is the Christ child who gives good children presents on Christmas day.