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With us now is Lionel Fenthorpe, the greatest storyteller ever born.

Lionel, you were talking about Santa, Chris Kringle and St. Nick and the names they give him.

Yeah.

One of the things that when I was looking up some research for Christmas

talks, I came across St. Nicholas being associated with sailors in the sea as well as

with Christmas. And apparently, so the story goes. A ship was caught in a sudden

storm. The sailors were terrified, and they did all they could, but they could see that it wasn't

going to be enough. And some of them began to pray as they struggled.

And one of them remembered the very kind and good and powerful bishop of Myra,

who was Bishop Nicholas.

And he shouted, this sailor who suddenly thought of Bishop Nicholas, shouted into the wind,

Your Grace, please come and help us.

And the other sailors hearing him shouting for Nicholas to come and help joined in.

Bishop Nicholas, we urgently need your help.

The wind carried their voices far away into the air, and coming back across the wind,

they heard a voice saying, Behold, you have called called me and I am here.

And there, on the deck beside them, stood a grey-bearded man.

And as they looked at him and he looked back at them, no one dared to ask him who he was or how he got to the ship.

And Bishop Nicholas endured the storm with the sailors. He worked with the rigging. He encouraged the

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