Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra, was the original Saint Nick.
Saint Nicholas.
Saint Nicholas.
He was a Catholic bishop.
Nicholas of Myra was from the town of Myra in Asia Minor, today known as Turkey.
The original name of Santa Claus is "Saint Nicholas".St.Nicholas
He was born in the third century and died in the fourth.
Saint Nicholas was from a Greek colony of Patrais in the Asia Minor. Today that area is part of modern Turkey. His home town was Myra.
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Άγιος Νικόλαος in the original Greek.In Greek Νικόλαος,
St. Nicholas of Myra was from Asia Minor in what is today the country of Turkey.
Saint Nicholas, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, is the original Santa Clause. He lived in Greece a long time ago and is the patron saint of children. That's why Santa is sometimes known as Saint Nick. "Santa Claus" is the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas.