Saturday, 17 July 2021

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS IN VERMONT (2016)

 

With Christmas fast approaching Ruthless businessman Preston Bullock (Chevy Chase) sends his rising star Riley Thomas (Abigail Hawk) to the small town of Chestnut, Vermont to evaluate the assets of one of his companies, an outerwear clothing manufacturer, which is pretty much the only significant employer in the town.

As she begins making plans for liquidation she meets the youthful CEO, Wyatt (David O'Donnell) and the company's founder, Nick (Howard Hesseman) now retired, and she hires –the latter as her apprentice to help.

Of course, everyone assumes she's there to save the company and she keeps her true motives a secret but she comes to appreciate what the company means to the people of Chestnut and she slowly comes to embrace the small town's values and even helps create a new product line just in time for Christmas, and as her priorities change she falls in love in the process.

STEPHEN PATRON SAINT OF

 

St Stephen the Martyr is the patron saint of casket makers, coffin makers, deacons, headaches, horses, masons, diocese of Owensboro Kentucky and stone masons

REPRESENTING ST STEPHEN

 

St Stephen is represented as a deacon carrying a pile of rocks, as a deacon with rocks gathered in his vestments or as a deacon with rocks on his head.

He is also represented as a deacon with rocks or a book at hand, by stones or by a palm.

CHRISTIANS OF ST. THOMAS

There is still a large native population on Malabar Coast in India who call themselves “Christians of St. Thomas.”

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – AN EVERGREEN CHRISTMAS (2014)

 

Putting her seemingly glamorous Hollywood life on hold, Evie Lee (Charleene Closshey), is forced to return to her small hometown of Balsam Falls, Tennessee, after the sudden death of her father.

Following the funeral, much to her younger brother's dismay, she is left the family's once-thriving Christmas tree farm and finds that the estate has a massive inheritance tax bill to pay.

As a result Evie is forced to choose between pursuing her music career and saving her family's legacy, while being constantly badgered by a potential buyer, Becky Tamora (Tiz McWilliams), and fielding calls from her employer Babette (Skyler Stonestreet).

Tyler Ritter provides the romantic interest as she tries to decide where her place in the world is.

Robert Loggia, Booboo Stewart and Naomi Judd also feature in this heart-warming musical holiday tale.

GOLDEN BALLS

 

St Nicholas is the patron saint of pawn brokers and outside of a pawn brokers you will see the symbol of three gold balls which are representations of the three bags of gold. He gave to the poor father to save his daughters from prostitution.

NICHOLAS PATRON SAINT OF

 

St Nicholas of Myra is the patron saint against imprisonment, against robberies and robbers he is also patron of apothecaries, bakers, barrel makers, boatmen, boot blacks, boys, brewers, brides, captives, children, coopers, dock workers, druggists and fishermen.

Also the patron saint of Greece, the Greek Catholic Church in America, the Greek Catholic Union, grooms, judges, and lawsuits lost unjustly, longshoremen, Lorraine, maidens, mariners, merchants, murderers, newlyweds, old maids, parish clerks and paupers.

As well as pawnbrokers, perfumeries, perfumers, pharmacists, pilgrims, poor people, Portsmouth England, prisoners, Russia, sailors, scholars, schoolchildren, shoe shiners, Sicily, spinsters, students, thieves, travelers, unmarried girls and watermen