Santa Claus' mother was Armenian - ethnographer reveals

[Yervant1]

Another long lost Armenian found!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Santa Claus' mother was Armenian - ethnographer reveals

 

http://www.tert.am/en/news/2012/12/29/santa-claus-hay/

14:25 - 29.12.12

 

It has appeared that Santa Claus, the same St. Nikolas, has Armenian

origin. Ethnographer Rafael Nahapetyan, speaking to reporters today,

said that according to mentioning mother of the so much loved saint in

Europe was an Armenian.

 

`It is mentioned that he was born in 280 and was of Armenian descent.

It was considered that he was the son of Ergephan and Armenian beauty

Nune. This rich family was not having a baby for quite a long time and

finally, listening to their prayers, God gives them miraculous son,

which becomes a person worshiped in all the European countries,' the

ethnographer said.

 

St Nikolas was born in Batara town (near today's Antalya). In the

early age he lost his parents and was brought up by uncle Archbishop

Nikolas Yerets. The commandment Sell what you have and distribute the

money to the poor became his life's slogan.

 

With people's wish he became Zmyurnia's archbishop. Later he was

exiled but continued propagating the Gospel. He died in 326 and is the

most loved saint known as Santa Claus.

 

Rafael Nahapetyan though said St. Nikolas was born in Zmyurnia from

where his remains were transported to Italy in 1080. `His mission was

curing people and families were looking forward for his visits,' he

said.

[MosJan]

Yervant jan this was not posted under comedy or joke section was it ??

 

Hye line@ Kayf e Kayf bolor surb en im nman

[Yervant1]

No I did not post it in comedy because, what if it's true!

Movses@ miayn surb che, aylyev azniv u hamest. Please members continue the rest.

Edited December 31, 2012 by Yervant1

[Ashot]

Santa Movses

[Nané]

What a delicious idea

[Yervant1]

The plot thickens!

 

 

Turkish professor calls for the return of Santa Claus' bones to Turkey

 

ISTANBUL

 

 

EPA photo

 

Akdeniz University (AÜ) Archaeology professor Nevzat Çevik has called

on the Vatican to return to Turkey the bones of Saint Nicholas (the

original Santa Claus), which were taken out of the country in 1087, in

an interview with Anatolia news agency.

 

Çevik said the bones of Saint Nicholas were taken from Turkey "by

force" to be buried in a church in the Bari province of Italy, and

should be returned to the place where the saint lived.

 

"This has nothing to do with tourism. Returning his bones to his grave

in Demre [a town in the southern province of Antalya] is a human

wish," Çevik said, adding that Saint Nicholas would himself like to be

buried in the funerary chapel next to his church in Demre.

 

In the interview, Çevik also expressed his satisfaction at the return

of a number of artifacts to Turkey through the initiative of the

Culture and Tourism Ministry.

 

"Saint Nicholas is also important for the Muslim world, despite

belonging to a period before the arrival of Islam. He was trying to

spread Christianity, which was also a religion sent by God," he said.

 

Çevik also emphasized the importance of the Saint Nicholas Church in

Demre as a place of pilgrimage for 1500 years.

 

Saint Nicholas was born in the Aegean region and he lived in ancient

town of Myra, in Lycia, which is today called Demre. The Saint

Nicholas Church was built in the 4th century A.D., and is now a museum

that attracts scores of visitors, especially Orthodox tourists.

 

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[MosJan]

1087 turk kam turkya goyutyun uner ?

[Yervant1]

1087 turk kam turkya goyutyun uner ?

Even Islam didn't exist then, But the furks had the air rights to all the land when the world came to existence. It seems eventually this topic will go to humour section.

[Yervant1]

Sealed under Turkish Mud, a well-preserved Byzantine chapel

 

http://lurer.com/?p=67178&l=en

2013-01-08 14:34:42

 

 

In the fourth century A.D., a bishop named Nicholas transformed the

city of Myra, on the Mediterranean coast of what is now Turkey, into a

Christian capital.

 

Nicholas was later canonized, becoming the St. Nicholas of Christmas

fame. Myra had a much unhappier fate.

 

After some 800 years as an important pilgrimage site in the Byzantine

Empire it vanished - buried under 18 feet of mud from the rampaging

Myros River. All that remained was the Church of St. Nicholas, parts

of a Roman amphitheater and tombs cut into the rocky hills.

 

But now, 700 years later, Myra is reappearing.

 

Archaeologists first detected the ancient city in 2009 using

ground-penetrating radar that revealed anomalies whose shape and size

suggested walls and buildings. Over the next two years they excavated

a small, stunning 13th-century chapel sealed in an uncanny state of

preservation. Carved out of one wall is a cross that, when sunlit,

beams its shape onto the altar. Inside is a vibrant fresco that is

highly unusual for Turkey.

 

The chapel's structural integrity suggests that Myra may be largely

intact underground. `This means we can find the original city, like

Pompeii,' said Nevzat Cevik, an archaeologist at Akdeniz University

who is director of the excavations at Myra, beneath the modern town of

Demre.

 

The chapel is part of a larger dig that includes the Roman

amphitheater - largely reconstructed in the second century after an

earthquake leveled much of Lycia - and Andriake, Myra's harbor, about

three miles south. Long a major Mediterranean port, Andriake was where

St. Paul changed ships on his way to Antioch (now Antakya). Finds

there include a workshop that produced royal purple and blue dye from

murex snails and a fifth-century synagogue, the first archaeological

evidence of Jewish life in Christian Lycia.

 

Much of Myra is under modern buildings in Demre, so archaeologists are

unsure where they will dig next. They are buying property from local

residents to prevent illegal excavations, though judging from the

paucity of artifacts found so far, looters might be disappointed: the

last residents of Myra seem to have looked at the rising floodwaters

and packed their bags before they left.