the 4th century Bishop of Myra who, as a nursing infant, fasted on holy days and whose bones were stolen after his death. Instead of a “right jolly old elf,” St. Nicholas is the patron saint ...

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 ...