#Nicholas of Myra

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Actually I'm not done memeing this quite yet

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The real St. Nick

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O good St. Nicholas, you who are the joy of the children, put in my heart the spirit of childhood, which the Gospel speaks, and teach me to seed happiness around me.

You, whose feast prepares us for Christmas, open my faith to the mystery of God made man. You good bishop and shepherd, help me to find my place in the Church, and inspire the Church to be faithful to the Gospel.

O good Saint Nicholas, patron of children, sailors and the helpless, watch over those who pray to Jesus, your Lord and theirs, as well as over those who humble themselves before you. Bring us all in reverence to the Holy Child of Bethlehem, when true joy and peace are found. Amen.

Nicholas: The Boy Who Became Santa (1990) dir. Fernando Uribe and Steven Hahn

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Saint Nicholas Icon Cross Stitch Pattern | Christian Icon

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One of my favourite recurring bits of terminology confusion is folks who've never played Dungeons & Dragons hearing that it has a class called a "monk", and, being aware that D&D's milieu is generically medieval, assuming they must be based on Catholic monks – particularly when you start explaining what the class actually does.

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12/09/2024

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The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Continuing from the last few cartoons, an angel is running a fantasy RPG for some saints in heaven, namely Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, and Nicholas of Myra. If you haven't seen the previous parts yet, go get caught up, lest I be caught up in rage. 2. Before they start playing, the angel asks his players if they have any fears or topics they'd like the story to avoid. This is one of they many questions game-masters might ask an unfamiliar group, giving the table a chance to discuss the overall tone they'd prefer. 3. However, for saints, this question is silly. Since they're in heaven, they're maximally peaceful and fulfilled. Thus, they feel no fear. However, because I am a jokey jokester who is liking to be telling the jokes, and because the whole premise of this RPG story arc is absurd on its face, I can't leave things at that. Instead, Joan pipes up and declares that she doesn't want burning alive to be part of the upcoming story, since it's how she was killed by her enemies on earth. 4. Joan is technically not an official martyr, having been sentenced for her private revelations and not for her faith in Christ. However, that’s not very hashtag Sigma, so I called her a martyr in this cartoon. If they have to revoke my Catholic cartoonist license for this, so be it. 5. After Joan says she doesn't want burning alive to be part of the game, the angel looks down at the monster he prepared for the end of the story: a fire-breathing dragon with a ton of fiery attacks. To accommodate Joan, he changes the "fire" dragon to an "ice" dragon and calls it good. He can fix the attack names later.

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i have… so many memes bc if i don’t make them who will

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I need someone to write me the multiverse fic where the Santa Claus of Red One (Saint Nicholas on Myra, of Greek descent) meets the Santa Claus of Violent Night (Nikamund the Red, a once-warrior of viking descent) and the Santa Claus of Rise of the Guardians (Nicholas St. North, a once-bandit of Russian descent). It would be, as North would say, EPIC. And I 1000% do not have the brainpower to write it myself. So please. I am on my knees begging. Somebody please make this happen.

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I've said this before but the funny thing about the Cosette adoption chapters is that, from Cosette's perspective, she literally just got adopted by Santa Claus. Valjean is a mysterious kind semi-magical white-haired figure who arrives on Christmas eve to give Cosette her dream gifts, and then drops a coin in her shoe as is a Christmas tradition! And then he gives Cosette the best Christmas gift of taking her away to the North Pole Paris. Even outside of the Cosette stuff, all the parallels between Valjean and the historical Saint Nicholas of Myra are really funny...The fact that he breaks into people's houses to secretly give them money, for example, is a very St Nick Thing(tm). He also makes toys out of straw for children in M-Sur-M! But the interesting thing is that the historical St Nicholas was, among other things, the patron saint of repented thieves and children. He was known for saving people from poverty, execution, and unjust prison sentences, which are thematically relevant. But yeah. Good on Cosette for getting swept away by Convict Santa. Sadly i don't think the sleigh and reindeer were part of the legend yet and that's super sad, bc they couldve helped against Javert later u_u

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Facts about Christmas

Although Jesus of Nazareth is unquestionably a historical figure, there is no clear historical record of the date or even the year of His birth. The tradition that he was born on December 25, accurate or not, appears to have been part of two competing holidays within the Roman Empire, at the time persecuting Christians: Christmas and a winter veneration of Sol Invictus, the pagan Roman sun god.

Santa Claus is also a historical figure, in a way. St. Nicholas of Myra (c. 270 AD- c. 343 AD), who lived in what is now Turkey, and who was later canonized, was in the habit of giving gifts by stealth, no doubt heeding Jesus's warning that boasting of charity would take away one's reward in Heaven.

His gifts were not, however, primarily to very young children. Most notably, at the time, women had few employment options outside the home, in part because most work was rough, physical and relied very much on upper body strength. Thus, parents of daughters were expected to provide a dowry to jump start future married couples financially, and if the parents lacked the means, their daughters were likely to end up in the world's oldest profession.

Nicholas of Myra was in the habit of anonymously sending the dowry money.

The stories of "Santa Claus" (a linguistic corruption of "Saint Nicholas"), also called Sinterklaas and Father Christmas, flying through the air, were a combination of Christianity and Germanic paganism, as the bearded, wise Odin, believed by Germanic/Norse pagans to be a god, could fly, among other supernatural powers, and was combined with Saint Nicholas.

The Christmas tree likewise has roots in Germanic paganism. From Ireland all the way to the lands of the Slavs, pagans traditionally venerated trees as symbols of gods, most often oak trees.

It was not uncommon for very early Christian missionaries to attempt to prove the old gods to be false or weak by cutting down an oak tree in front of the pagans (who, in the case of Germanic pagans, expected Thor, the god of thunder, to take vengeance), and if they did so without consequences from the old gods, the pagans were likely to convert, concluding that Christ must be more powerful than Thor et alia, hence the Tannenbaum.

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For anyone wondering, the thing that santa shouts to his reindeer is 'kavalame', a greek word that roughly translates to 'we ride'. This is possibly a reference to originally Saint Nicholas of Myra, being from greece.

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In honor of Christmas, could you please provide me with some fun facts about St Nicholas? I read a bit on Wikipedia, but I trust you more lol

Awwww thank you Anonie. I’ve only recently began learning about saints but I’ve known about Saint Nicholas.

I’ve been praying to St Nicky a lot lately. He’s famous for the story of how he sneakily gave dowry money to 3 young women whose father could not afford to give them the money for it.

What is not commonly known is how their father was gonna sell them into sex slavery. And that depending on who you ask he had wasted the money that should’ve been there’s on pleasures of the flesh. So… yeah. He is not merely a saint of generosity and humility, but also of the protection of young women and against the sexual slave trade (May our God of Love and Justice destroy the sex slave industry).

He is also famously a protector of sailors. His home town Myra is a sailing port so sailors pray to him a lot. There’s also a story of some sailors stuck in a storm and who thought they were going to die (I’m remembering this from memory so anyone correct me if I’m wrong). But, Saint Nicholas prayed to God and the storm was rebuked.

I often refer to him as “Patron of those Lost at Sea” and since my family’s been going thru it, and Christmas is a dark season for many people, I have been praying to him that he may intercede on behalf of all those who feel like they’re drowning.

I remember that when he was a young child, his parents died and he gave all of his wealth away to the poor and dedicated himself to the local church.

There are more stories I know of but not many details: St Nick saving the lives of 3 boys killed by an innkeeper; saving the lives of some innocent men

Merry Christmas and may we all be moved to greater love, generosity, and righteousness as we remember the birth of our Savior.

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SAINT OF THE DAY (December 6)

On December 6, the faithful commemorate a bishop in the early church who was known for generosity and love of children.

Born around the late third or fourth century in Lycia, Asia Minor, St. Nicholas of Myra is more than just the inspiration for the modern day Santa.

As a young man, he is said to have made a pilgrimage to Palestine and Egypt in order to study in the school of the Desert Fathers.

On returning some years later, he was almost immediately ordained Bishop of Myra, which is now Demre, on the coast of modern day Turkey.

The bishop was imprisoned during the Diocletian persecution. He was only released when Constantine the Great came to power and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

One of the most famous stories of the generosity of St. Nicholas says that he threw bags of gold through an open window in the house of a poor man to serve as dowry for the man’s daughters, who otherwise would have been forced into prostitution.

The gold is said to have landed in the family’s shoes, which were drying near the fire.

This is why children leave their shoes out by the door, or hang their stockings by the fireplace, in the hopes of receiving a gift on the eve of his feast.

St. Nicholas is associated with Christmas because of the tradition that he had with the custom of giving secret gifts to children.

It is also conjectured that the saint, who was known to wear red robes and have a long white beard, was culturally converted into the large man with a reindeer-drawn sled full of toys because in German, his name is “San Nikolaus,” which almost sounds like “Santa Claus.”

In the East, he is known as St. Nicholas of Myra for the town in which he was bishop.

But in the West, he is called St. Nicholas of Bari because, during the Muslim conquest of Turkey in 1087, his relics were taken to Bari by the Italians.

St Nicholas is the patron of children and sailors.

His intercession is sought by the shipwrecked, by those in difficult economic circumstances, and for those affected by fires.

He died on 6 December 346.

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