SANTA CLAUS Maria Saca boot I will emborrachaaarrr ' Who was Santa Claus' in various areas is known as San Nicolas, in other Santa Claus, Papa Noel or viejito Pascuero. But ' Where do we start this tradition that the children are visited on Christmas Eve for that pudgy and bearded man dressed in red loaded with gifts and sweets' San Nicolas de Bari was a saint who step into posterity and it is estimated that the dead December 6th of the year 345. But because Christmas was near, he recalls that day. Santa Claus evolved from the name of this saint in German, to be St. Nikolaus.

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'>Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday a visit to two of the most important religious sites of Islam and Judaism: Jerusalem is the Temple Mount and Western Wall. The pilgrimage has shown how delicate political minefield the Holy Land can be the pope.

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