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St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas is one of the more popular saints in the Christian world. Considered the patron saint of children, his name has been corrupted to the form "Santa Claus". The Bishop of Myra in Lycia (south-eastern Asia Minor), St. Nicholas is thought by many to have attended the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea, here he purportedly confronted Arius, whose decension was the cause of the Council. St. Nicholas' popularity increased in the West after 1087, when the residents of Bari, Italy, claimed to be in possesion of his relics
Photo by John Washinsky Text by the Ken Mitchel Family
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