Some concerning facts about Santa

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

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0:00.0	But Inter Santa Claus, let's talk about this guy because this is just interesting to know. Santa Claus,
0:05.6	well, he's based on several characters. One of them is St. Nicholas. He was an actual guy. Another is Father Christmas.
0:12.8	Father Christmas is a mythical figure. And another is Santa Claus, or Santa Claus,
0:18.5	which I know is just another language there. We're kind of mixing, but
0:22.3	Santa Claus, what we commonly call Santa Claus, is sort of a mixture of these two characters.
0:27.2	Of this St. Nicholas and Father Christmas, sort of blended together in a constantly changing
0:32.9	character, Santa Claus, who changes all the time. But let's talk about the original legitimate
0:38.1	characters, St. Nicholas. He was the bishop of Myra in the 300s AD. I say probably because
0:44.0	there's not a whole lot of actual historical evidence about him. There's a little bit,
0:49.0	then there's a bunch of myths that are surrounding him. Many legends are about
0:55.5	this guy, St. Nicholas. I'll tell you one of them right now. Supposedly,
0:59.5	Nicholas was born to a wealthy family in Petara, Lithia. His parents died, and he inherited a
1:05.1	considerable sum of money, but he kept none of it. He gave it all away. In the most famous story
1:09.9	about his life, he threw bags of gold through the windows of three girls about to be forced into
1:15.3	the lives of prostitutes. At least, that's the most common version of the story. There are other
1:22.7	versions of the story, including a really grim one, where the three girls are beheaded by an
1:27.6	innkeeper and pickled in a tub of brine until Nicholas resurrects them. So I share that with you
1:32.8	to realize the breadth of the stories from what seems plausible to what seems really implausible,
1:37.4	where you're like, yeah, probably not the way it happened. The shoes are in this particular
1:41.4	picture because he's known to have dropped at least in some of the stories to put money in their
1:44.8	shoes. They put their shoes by the window and he put money in them. So maybe there's some
1:49.4	connection with hanging stockings. I like hanging stockings because it's a perfect receptacle for
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