212 St. Nicholas

An episode of the The Weird History Podcast podcast, hosted by Joe Streckert, titled "212 St. Nicholas" was published on December 12, 2019 and runs 25 minutes.

December 12, 2019 ·25m · The Weird History Podcast

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Saint Nicholas is not Santa Claus, but he’s now inescapably bound up with Santa’s story and identity. Nicholas was the bishop of Myra, a town in what we no call Turkey, and we don’t have any surviving sources about him from his lifetime. The first major biography we have of Nicholas dates from 800s, centuries after his death, and stories about him are likely fictional or exaggerated. Those stories tell of a man who expelled demons, stayed executions, slapped the Christian heretic Arius (pictured below) and showed great generosity to his fellow citizens of Myra.

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