On December 6th, we celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas, a.k.a. Santa Claus. As you may have expected, St. Nicolas’s story neither begins at the North Pole nor in Sombertown. Rather, it begins in the city of Myra, located in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). Nicolas was born to wealthy parents in the fourth century. He suffered under the Diocletian persecution and was imprisoned. He was released after Constantine issued the Edict of Milan (313), which made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire. Nicholas was consecrated the bishop of Myra.
Read More