[Alex Murphy]

Dealing with Byzantine sailors was a hands-on job. St. Nicholas, hardened by his imprisonment under Diocletian, knew how to handle himself in a fight. Modern forensic facial reconstruction of the relic-skull of St. Nicholas, now in Bari, Italy, reveal a stout man with a bent nose, the result of several breaks. Being the genuine man of his roots, St. Nicholas didn't leave his common ways behind when attending to Church matters.

[GoDuke]

“You better not shout, you better not cry,
you better not pout, I’m telling you why.
Santa Claus is smacking upside the head!”

[vladimir998]

One of my favorite bishops of the era is(St.) Lucifer. Yes, there was a bishop named Lucifer. He was a bishop in Sardinia and was tough as nails. He chewed out the emperor in front of other bishops and the emperor’s flunkies for being weak in opposing Arianism. For that he was exiled. He was later said to be excommunicated for consecrating a man when he had no right to do so. The people of Sardinia believe he reconciled with the Church. There he is venerated as a saint.

[El Sordo]

Man, can Christmas possibly get any awesomer?

[Cronos]

The way in which Christ’s birthday is celebrated in American cities is really terribly commercialised. And a lot of it is with this Santa Claus character, who as you point out, differs considerably from the REAL Saint Nicholaus