GC35XGE December 6th~Saint Nicholas Day
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 10/13/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 44.365 W104° 11.435 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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St. Nicholas Day is today. Yes, there really was a christian Saint Nicholas. He lived in the country of Greece, just a couple hundred years after the birth of Christ. This day is in honor of Saint Nicholas and his life.

Saint Nicholas became a priest, and later, a Bishop of the early Catholic Church. True to the christian concept of giving up belongings and following Christ, St. Nicholas gave up all of his belongings. He was well known for giving to needy people, especially children. There are may stories and tales of him helping out children in need.

The practice of hanging up stockings originated with Saint Nicholas. As the ancient legend goes, Saint Nicholas was known to throw small bags of gold coins into the open windows of poor homes. After one bag of gold fell into the stocking of a child, news got around. Children soon began hanging their stocking by their chimneys "in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there".

It wasn't until the 1800's that the spirit of St. Nicholas' life evolved into the creation of Santa Claus. And, this happened in America. Santa Claus emerged (or evolved) from the stories and legends of St. Nicholas. Santa Claus was kind and generous to children. Unlike "St. Nick", Santa Claus is largely a non-religious character.

07/06/2019 By endlessexplorations
If it was on the phone box, its dead now

06/12/2019 By chipleader
well… my #miniroadtrip2019 brought me today from Denver, Colorado over kanorado, Kansas, back to Colorado, all the way down to lamar…
i took as much as boxes as possible... was a nice geoaching-roadtrip-day…

for this one:

no trade
logtime: 10.52 am
#5925

thanks a lot to all the owners!

chipleader
from switzerland

ps. please excuse my copy-paste-log... ;-)

05/04/2019 By Unkle Fester
A great day out and about caching. Beautiful day... great drive though the country. TFTC

05/04/2019 By WalkingDuo
Cached around Strasburg and Bennett today.Repaired containers and logs as needed. My check engine light came on so didn't venture too far from civilization. Enjoyed the Search - Thanks

03/26/2019 By team.STEWART817
TFTC!

06/06/2018 By ColoradoA_Team
Quick grab on the way to the 2nd amendment theme park. Another poo covered container! Have hand sanitizer or gloves! TFTC SL

04/27/2018 By Brewman65
Had a nice visit to Colorado, and found a lot of caches

03/31/2018 By EJBHGV
Touring the plains east of Denver on a nice Spring day.
Found a lot af caches and enjoyed the fastness of the area.
All CO's thanks for making this game possible.

10/12/2017 By L O S T - S O U L
TFTC

Enjoying the day traversing the countryside, acquiring many miles and boosting cache numbers along the power trails and others in between.!
Nothing better than caching along the back country roads of America! Thanks for placing these out here. Replaced wet logs and broken containers as needed. Initialed logs

06/25/2017 By CacheDeposit
TFTC