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St Nick?
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Re: St Nick?
It is to celebrate the (catholic) feast day of St. Nicholas.
It was said that St. Nick had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him. (so we grew up leaving a shoe outside out bedroom door the eve of the feast day). -- some people just do stockings.
Honestly- the tradition is MUCH more heavily celebrated in Europe.
This nicely explains the shoe and stocking part-
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/who-is-st-nicholas/
My husbands family is all catholic, and I converted last year and noone in our family has ever heard of it.
Seems by posts I have read today that alot of people of the east coast celebrate it.
Yeah we are in NOLA (large, large Catholic area) my dh is catholic and we've never heard of it. So I am thinking it is an east coast thing. It's a neat idea none the less.
On a different note one year we were at Disney for Mardi Gras and some people from PA were asking if we ate donuts or some other pastry because it was Fat Tuesday and we were clueless. They told us they didn't believe we were from NOLA since we didn't know. Um no dude, it's all about the King Cake here! It's funny how things are regional.
Its not really an east coast thing per se-
It is definitely more prevalent for families that are of European dissent. My family (mom's side) is Polish- and it is a VERY big thing in Poland- Dad's family is all Irish- again VERY big thing in Ireland. So our families grew up with this tradition. German dissent is very prevalent as is Italians for celebrating this feast.
lol-
Fastnachts doughnuts for Shrove Tuesday are a tradition among German immigrants in Pennsylvania Dutch country. So that explains the PA people asking about the donuts.