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firemonkey
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06 Dec 2017, 6:55 am

Was St Nicholas, the fourth century saint who inspired the iconography of Santa Claus, a legend or was he a real person?

New Oxford University research has revealed that bones long venerated as relics of the saint, do in fact date from the right historical period.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 120517.php



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06 Dec 2017, 1:16 pm

I didn't know that there ever was a doubt that St. Nicholas existed.

How he morphed into a little 8 inch tall elf who went down chimneys, and then morphed into a full sized obese man who goes down chimnies is another story.