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Would the Real Saint Nicholas Please Stand Up?
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Would the Real Saint Nicholas Please Stand Up?
Saint Nicholas of Myra (+343) has gone down in legend in more ways than one. His general story follows below, but through the years has developed into the genial ‘Santa Claus’, the rotund, cherubic figure, a creation of the cartoonist Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly in 1881, with the red suit and ample physiognomy, which was in turn developed for an advertising campaign of Coca-Cola. Charles Coloumbe has a very good history of Santa over at OnePe…
Saint Nicholas, whose memory our church celebrates on December 6, was born in the 3rd century AD in Patara, Lycia, to pious and wealthy parents and was active during the era of the emperors Diocletian and
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