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Follow now, wherever you get your podcasts. It's early December and we here in England are settling into the holiday season and starting to wish each other happy Christmas.

However, in many parts of Europe, before you get to Christmas, you have to first celebrate one of the medieval period's favorite Saints,

Saint Nicholas of Mirna. It's Saint Nicholas's legend in celebration that eventually transformed

into our own Santa Claus traditions today.

And his commemoration was a great excuse for medieval people to let down their hair and celebrate

while still in the much more somber and reflective period of advent. Now celebrations vary across

European countries, but one thing is for certain. Like our medieval ancestors, we

still like to make sure that we mark the occasion in a big way.

So today, to get suitably festive, I've invited one of my favorite people,

the experiential archaeologist Caroline Nico,

part of the Perio Gallico team whose expertise runs from the Iron Age to the Tudor era,

to talk with me about all things St. Nicholas.

We're going to discuss how his life was embellished and commemorated from the late antique period until today,

and how a relatively boring Bishop managed to give birth to the party event of the festive season.

Even better, we're ready to compare notes on what the festivities look like in our respective regions

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