Show Real Santa Claus Clans ClansA A Youthful Saint The name of Santa Claus is merely merely merely mere mere- ly slurring the Dutch San Nicholas which is of course St. St Nicholas American children are probably the only ones who say it exactly that way Nicholas was an actual person He was was Bishop of Myra in Lycia Asia Minor in the first part of the fourth century He was also the youngest bishop in the history of the church From the day of his birth Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas Nicho Nicho- las revealed his piety and grace He refused on fast days to take the natural nourishment of a child But Nicholas was not a barefoot recluse vowed to poverty His father father father fa fa- fa- fa ther was a wealthy merchant and his riches enabled him to be a dispenser dispenser dis dis- of at the good things of ot life The feast of St. St Nicholas was originally celebrated on December 6 Later when church people in the late Middle Ages tried to suppress the festivities which grew up around the Boy Saints Saint's day his festival came to be associated with Christmas day |