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<\/a><\/p>\nA bit if trivia for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n St. Nicholas is the world’s most popular non-Biblical saint. He has over 2,000 churches dedicated to him in France and Germany, and 400 in England.<\/p>\n Artists have portrayed St. Nicholas more times than any other saint except Mary.<\/p>\n St. Nicholas is also the patron saint of banking, pawnbroking, scholarship, pirating, butchery, sailing, thievery, haberdashery, orphans, royalty, and New York City.<\/p>\n German-born American illustrator Thomas Nast (1840-1902) helped create the modern version of Santa as jolly, chubby, and dressed mainly in red. Coca-Cola further solidified his image in the mainstream media in 1931 when they used him in their advertising. <\/p>\n St. Nicholas (who would later become Santa Claus) became famous when he gave three poor girls their dowries so they wouldn’t be sold into prostitution.<\/p>\n St. Nicholas Fact The variety of the job! Playing ‘you know who’ at DRC Noah’s Ark Parent & Toddler Group. A bit if trivia for you. St. Nicholas is the world’s most popular non-Biblical saint. He has over 2,000 churches dedicated to him in France and Germany, and 400 in England. Artists have portrayed St. Nicholas more times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16469,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466\/revisions\/16469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Santa Claus narrative is based on an actual bishop from modern-day Turkey, St. Nicholas
\nThe figure of Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas, a real person who lived during the fourth century in Patara, or what is now Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"