St. Nicholas

This essay is a Catholic take on the origins and history of Christmas. But it is more than that. The essay was written by Fredrick Wilhelmsen and re-published in one of William F. Buckley's anthologys.

" Wilhelmsen is not satisfied to praise religion. He sees it as Chesterton did, and he is the only American writing today who combines Chesterton's power of historical discrimination and religious animation -- the mystic enthusiasm of the religion of joy, despising the accretions of puritanical dourness, straining to adore: and succeeding."....William F. Buckley

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