MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR

The Story of Christmas Stockings

Legend has it that the tradition of hanging Christmas stockings by the fireplace began with two poor sisters.

Both wanted to marry but their father was too poor to pay their wedding dowries.
Christmas Eve, the sisters hung their stockings by the fire to dry.
Saint Nicholas intervened, tossing gold coins down the chimney and into the stockings. On Christmas Day, the sisters were delighted to discover the money—enough for both dowries.

Victorian children sometimes hung Christmas stockings on their bedposts. Parents then had a recipe for stocking gift giving that still works today:

“Something to eat,
Something to read,
Something to play with,
and Something they need.

Happy holidays from all your Languages Teachers

(Portuguese, English and French)

E.B. 2,3 de Perafita