The tomb of Saint Nicholas
Hello everyone! 👋 Or, I should rather say, Ho Ho Ho ! 🎅 As this is the last post before Christmas I would like to pick up on this holiday at least a bit. For a long time I didn’t know what to write about until I came across news from 3 years ago (how time flies!) about a tomb of Saint Nicholas ! Therefore, let me briefly tell you about this discovery… Some of you may be now wondering what Saint Nicholas, the fourth-century Turkish bishop born in Myra, has to do with a bearded, cheerful, portly man in red who delivers gifts to children at the end of every December. In a nutshell: the modern fairy-tale character of Santa Claus is based on the Saint of Myra . If you want to read more about this “transformation”, I recommend this article . Despite the enormous fame that the Saint of Myra enjoys today, his burial place has long been a puzzle for researchers . Until 2017 it was believed that the alleged body of the bishop was stolen from the church in Myra in 1087 and smuggled by mer