Saint Nicholas was born in Lycia in Asia Minor ... anything historically certain about him except that he was Bishop of Myra in the fourth century. As a young man he is said to have made a ...

“The story is that crusaders stole his body from the church in Myra where he was the bishop ... Claus character is based on a Roman Catholic bishop, St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children ...

There are several Saint Nicholases, two of whom, found in many a Saints' dictionary is actually the same Saint, that of St. Nicholas of ... when he was the Bishop of Myra. Thus is derived his ...