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 than any other saint except Mary.

St. Nicholas is also the patron saint of banking, pawnbroking, scholarship, pirating, butchery, sailing, thievery, haberdashery, orphans, royalty, and New York City.

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.

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.

St. Nicholas Fact
The Santa Claus narrative is based on an actual bishop from modern-day Turkey, St. Nicholas
The 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.

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