Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's wall builders and it's Christmas Day. Pray that you're having a wonderful day with your family today. And for those of you that are serving us around the world, protecting our nation and protecting so many others.

Thank you for missing Christmas with your family and serving our country.

We've got a Bill Federer program today that we're going to pick up where we left off yesterday.

Bill was giving us so many cool little tidbits from history.

I had no idea so many of these different connections and things that, though, how we got

the traditions and even some of the names and all these different things about Christmas.

So it's just fun to learn these things.

So we're going to jump right back in with Bill Federer.

I'm Rick Green America's Constitution Coach.

David and Tim Barton will be with us when we come back later in the program.

Here's Bill Federer.

And at 98 AD, Vladimir the Great converts from paganism to Greek Orthodox

Christianity and adopts Nicholas as the patron saint of Russia. And then Islam comes in and destroys

all seven churches that mentioned in the book of Revelation in Asia Minor. Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thiatyrus, Sardis, Philadelphia,

Laotoccia, all wiped out. And when they would come in, they would destroy churches and graves.

People forget, in 846 AD, 11,000 Muslim Saracen pirates come up the Tiber River and trash Rome

and trash the basilica of St. Peter's and St Rome and trashed the basilica of St.

Peters and St. Paul, right, the church of St. Paul outside the walls. And they trashed the

graves of St. Peter and St. Paul. After this, Pope Leo IV built a 39-foot wall around

the basilica of St. Peter's. But the threat of these Muslim invaders destroying the grave of St. Nicholas was real.

So in 1087, they move his grave to Italy.

A little town called Bari, B-A-R-I, and the cathedral is still there,

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