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My now-traditional annual retelling of the life story of Santa Claus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
Claus was born in Patara, modern Turkey in 270, and became bishop of nearby Myra. In the most famous of many miracles for which he was canonised as Santa, he resurrected three boys who had been killed and pickled to be sold as meat during a famine
The first Christmas presents he gave were to pay the dowries of three sisters who would have been forced into prostitution, dropping purses of coins down their father's chimeny
Under the Emperor Diocletian, Santa Claus was imprisoned and tortured as a Christian. After the conversion of Constantine he was released
Santa Claus was one of the delegates at the first Council of Nicaea, where he famously punched another delegate during a theological disagreement
After this he passes into legend, but was probably next attested in the 10th century in Bohema, modern Czechia, when he visited Wenceslas I on St. Stephen's Day
In 2017 when I was living in Oxford, a reputed fragment of the pelvis of the Santa's mortal body was brought to the city for dating - and its ancient date was confirmed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
Claus was born in Patara, modern Turkey in 270, and became bishop of nearby Myra. In the most famous of many miracles for which he was canonised as Santa, he resurrected three boys who had been killed and pickled to be sold as meat during a famine
The first Christmas presents he gave were to pay the dowries of three sisters who would have been forced into prostitution, dropping purses of coins down their father's chimeny
Under the Emperor Diocletian, Santa Claus was imprisoned and tortured as a Christian. After the conversion of Constantine he was released
Santa Claus was one of the delegates at the first Council of Nicaea, where he famously punched another delegate during a theological disagreement
After this he passes into legend, but was probably next attested in the 10th century in Bohema, modern Czechia, when he visited Wenceslas I on St. Stephen's Day
In 2017 when I was living in Oxford, a reputed fragment of the pelvis of the Santa's mortal body was brought to the city for dating - and its ancient date was confirmed