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"Kris Kringle" is the totally pagan version of Saint Nicholas, or his anglicized modern-equivalent of Santa [Saint] Claus
[nicK-'claus]....

Someone else, a gentleman of Spanish origin, asked me the same thing today!!!
Before that, I thought everyone knew "Kris Kringle" !:

Liechtenstein, December 1867.
Otto Grinch, Ebeneezer Scrooge and Kris Kringle celebrate a deal with the devil for immortality.
Come each and every holiday season ever after the world would not be left in peace and instead be victim to the tiresome machinations of this cruel and heartless triad.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES "FAUSTIAN GREETINGS"
www.dazeofourlives.com/991209.htm

Does this prove to any of you that the secularization of Christmas is Satanic??? Remember our Papa's first Christmas address!
At least, the less volatile version of "Santa Claus" looks a bit like a monk:

or, "Father Christmas" [who was based on St. Nicholas, Bishop of Nurcia*]:


(A Vatican insider said: "The Pope was told it was cold outside and he said he had just the thing. He came out holding the hat and said he would wear it. He even joked that it made him look like Father Christmas.")
You can note that the original depictions of "Fr. Christmas" or "Santa Claus", does not reveal a glutonous "fat-man"

[that was the beginning of the vice-filled prankster, who became known as "Kris Kringle": who would put coal in children's stockings, and do other mean things to make children cry!].
Surely this would scare any child:

The idea of his " elves" as his helpers, too!
The next may be a little tamer; but where is Christ in all this? Besides, "Mr. Claus" is not in the warmth of the Mediterannean...[remember Bari*]; but is now in the freezing North Pole!!!



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*the real St. Nicholas lived in a warm, sunny town on the Mediterranean Sea -- in what is now Turkey.
St. Nicholas was born in the town of Patara in 245 A.D. When he was young, his father died and left Nicholas a great fortune. Instead of spending it on himself, Nicholas started anonymously giving the money to the needy, especially children.
Nicholas eventually became the Bishop of Myra (modern-day Demre in Turkey), where he performed several miracles, including saving sailors from drowning and resurrecting three boys who had been killed by an evil butcher. ["Magnificat" (monthly missal) ran a beautiful reading of this true, but gory story; and subsequently of St. Nicholas' three resurrections of the murdered boys found in lard-barrels, a few years back.] Today, St. Nicholas is the patron saint of children, sailors, teachers, students and merchants.
But the most famous St. Nicholas story led to the legend of Santa Claus. A nobleman who lived with his three daughters had fallen on hard times. The daughters had no chance of marriage, since their father could not pay their dowries.
One night, St. Nicholas threw a sack of gold through a window of the nobleman's shabby castle, which was enough for one daughter's marriage. The next night, he tossed another sack of gold through the window for the second daughter.
But on the third night, the window was closed. So, St. Nicholas climbed onto the roof and dropped the sack down the chimney. The next morning, the daughters found the gold in the stockings they had hung to dry by the fireplace.
Hence the tradition of hanging stockings on Christmas Eve, awaiting a visit from St. Nick.
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P.S. Am I actually the only one who really likes Papa's camauro????????