Saint Nicholas: The Untold Man Behind the Myth 2025

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Are you tired of the commercialized myth and ready for the historically-grounded truth about Nicholas of Myra? Discover the real Nicholas—the man behind the legend of Santa Claus. You’ve heard the myths, but now it’s time to uncover the God Honest truth about one of history’s most misunderstood believers. Dive into this educational teaching and meet the real 4th-century bishop that was used for the legend.  The popular image is a delightful fantasy, but the true story of Nicholas of Myra is much more obscure. In this teaching, we dive into the authentic life of Nicholas of Myra. You’ll learn both who he truly was and who he wasn’t.   So join us as we learn the God honest truth about the Bishop Nicholas of Myra, the man behind the legend of Santa Claus.  #SaintNicholas #RealSantaClaus #GodHonestTruth #ChristmasTruth #ChristmasOrigins  Video Chapters: 00:00 Teaching Introduction Video Start Basic Information Legends About Nicholas Manufactured Myth  Resources from God Honest Truth: Get the full notes, drash slides, and transcript for this teaching: https://www.godhonesttruth.com/wp/2025/10/31/saint-nicholas-the-untold-man-behind-the-myth-live-stream-10-31-2025/  Find more resources to help you in your walk of faith: [https://www.GodHonestTruth.com]  Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GodHonestTruth  Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/godhonesttruth  Social Media Links: https://godhonesttruth.com/wp/connect-socially/  Music: TheFatRat - Kingdom Come Watch the official music video: https://tinyurl.com/tfrkingdomcome Listen to Kingdom Come: https://thefatrat.ffm.to/warriorsongs Follow TheFatRat: https://ffm.bio/thefatrat  —-Disclaimer: The information presented here is for documentary, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Any imitation or application of the content is done at your own risk. Neither the creators nor associated platforms shall be liable for any injury or damage resulting from such use. This content is freely accessible; please report any unauthorized attempts to charge. By viewing or flagging this content, you acknowledge and accept these terms.  Fair Use: Any inclusion of third-party audio/music, video, or images is used under Fair Use for commentary, parody, and educational or documentary purposes.  This video may contain content that is unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs.

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00:00The tearful man on the sleigh is a beautiful fiction, but that's not the actual Saint Nicholas

00:08who really lived. You think you know Santa's origin story? Well, you don't, because we're

00:13going to get into that in this particular teaching about Saint Nicholas of Myra, the

00:19Bishop of Myra, a small town on the southern coast of modern-day Turkey. Forget everything

00:25you thought you knew about Saint Nick. This isn't a story about a jolly figure. This

00:30is the God-honest historical truth about a person who actually existed and who actually

00:36lived. So stay tuned for the God-honest truth about Nicholas, Bishop of Myra.

00:55All right, so this teaching or episode is going to be all about the actual historical

01:05person, Nicholas of Myra, the Bishop, the one who the Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox

01:12and others call, quote-unquote, Saint Nicholas. So that's going to be our draws, our teaching

01:19for tonight, continuing in our Christmas in Detail series. This is episode number four. If

01:24you'd like more information other than what we present in this particular drosh, then the

01:30best place to go would be to our website at godhonesttruth.com. Click on the article

01:35post for this particular episode, and there you'll be able to find the on-demand video.

01:42You'll be able to find the drosh slides that you see here on your screen, but you'll be able

01:46to go through them at your own pace. You'll also find the notes that we took for this particular

01:52research project and the transcript. And in addition, for this whole series, we've been

01:58doing some AI researched papers, academic papers on each particular subject, and we've got several

02:06different AI research papers on Nicholas of Myra, Saint Nicholas of Myra. Go check that

02:13out today at godhonesttruth.com, or an even more convenient way is to go down below in the

02:18description. And there you'll find a convenient link that'll take you directly to our website

02:25and that article post. And it's all conveniently located for you down there in the description,

02:29and that should be there whether you are watching on a video platform or an audio podcasting

02:34platform. Go down there right now and click on it and open up the site today. Now this is

02:39going to be a rather quick, short, to the point kind of teaching, because there's actually not

02:46too much in there. In fact, we start going over the basic information about the actual historical

02:52person of Nicholas of Myra, and there's not much to tell about him actually. In fact, most of what we

03:00do have is legends and myths and things that were written hundreds of years after he actually lived.

03:08And the truth of the matter is, it doesn't matter which demographic you come from, which denomination

03:13you come from, there's very, very little about Nicholas of Myra, and therefore we know

03:20accuracy very little about Nicholas of Myra. There's actually no contemporary writings, meaning there's no

03:28writings during his time that mention Nicholas of Myra. Just about everything we've got comes from

03:39hundreds of years after he died. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica at Britannica.com,

03:46quote, Nicholas's existence is not attested by any historical document, so nothing certain is known of

03:54his life except that he was probably Bishop of Myra in the 4th century, end quote. And from Brill's New

04:00Pauling, quote, according to Hagios Nicolaeus, the text combined the few historical features of the life

04:08of Nicholas with details of the life of a Presbyter and Archimandrite of the same name who first lived at

04:15the monastery of Zion and was consecrated Bishop of Onara after 545, end quote.

04:23Now, some of the things that we do know about Nicholas of Myra for certain, or at least with a high degree

04:32of probability anyways, is that he was born and then was a Bishop of a town or a city. I don't know

04:40which one it is, but it's a place called Myra, and it's right off the western part of the southern coast

04:49of modern day Turkey. And if you're watching on the video platforms, you can see here a map showing

04:56you where Myra would have been back in the old days. It goes by a different name nowadays. But back

05:02during the time of Nicholas in the early 4th century, this is where Myra would have been and where Nicholas

05:10Nicholas would have been a Bishop of. Now, just one tangent real quick. We're going to be using

05:15the word saint, but we're going to be using it rather loosely. The common way to refer to Nicholas

05:23that's come down and it's custom, it's tradition. I understand that and accept that the tradition is to

05:31refer to him as Saint Nicholas because that's what quote unquote the church called him for hundreds

05:38of years. And it just kind of stuck. And that's what everybody knows him by. So that's what we're

05:42going to refer to him as, even though we do not believe in quote unquote saints because people

05:49don't go to heaven when they die. They don't go to hell when they die for that matter. They just go

05:54unconscious as so there's really no one to pray to. There's no one to commit miracles except

06:01for Yeshua. He's the only one who is alive right now and in heaven and no one else, not Nicholas,

06:08not anyone else. Plus, there are a bunch of people throughout history named Nicholas. There is

06:14czars named Nicholas. There are popes named Nicholas. So it kind of helps to differentiate who it is we're

06:20talking about as well. So that's why we use that word saint in front of his name and also the town in

06:27which he is known by. And that really narrows it down to the person that we're talking about so

06:33that you don't get confused with anyone else in history. Sorry, this is a little bit of tangent.

06:38Yeah, this is where this town of Myra in the southern part of modern day Turkey is where Nicholas was a

06:46bishop of for a while. Going on looking at the Catholic encyclopedia, quote, there is scarcely

06:52anything historically certain about him except that he was bishop of Myra in the fourth century.

06:58Some of the main points in his legend are as follows. He was born at Parara, a city of La Sia

07:04in Asia Minor. In his youth, he made a pilgrimage to Egypt and Palestine. Shortly after his return,

07:10he became bishop of Myra. Cast into prison during the persecution of Diocletian, he was released after

07:17the ascension of Constantine and was present at the council of Nicaea. The numerous miracles saint

07:24Nicholas is said to have wrought both before and after his death are outgrowths of a long tradition.

07:31There is reason to doubt his presence at Nicaea since his name is not mentioned in any of the old

07:36list of bishops that attended this council, end quote. And this is something we're going to run

07:42into over and over again and trying to find out who the actual historical person Nicholas of Myra

07:49actually was. There's very little actual historical information about him. Most of the information or

07:55most of the things that we know about him are legends and myth as comes down to us later on. One of

08:02those legends that we'll get into here in just a bit is his attendance and participation, for lack of

08:09a better word, at the council of Nicaea, the very first quote unquote ecumenical council, even though

08:16it wasn't actually an ecumenical council. But we'll get into that story later. But anyways, that's what

08:22the problem we run into in trying to study him. That's why this brush is going to be rather short,

08:27because there's not that much verifiable information about Nicholas of Myra. Moving on to the Anchor

08:34Yale Bible Dictionary. Quote, Nicholas was born at Patara circa 300 BC and served as the Bishop of Myra.

08:43Late sources uncorroborated by contemporary evidence alleged that Nicholas was imprisoned

08:48during Diocletian's persecution, that he was present at the council of Nicaea in 325,

08:53and that he died circa 350. Nicholas eventually became the patron saint of children, sailors,

09:00and merchants of Greece and of Russia. End quote. And finally, from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

09:06Quote, all the accounts that have come down to us are of a purely legendary character,

09:12and it is impossible to find any single incident confirmed historically. End quote.

09:18And there it is again. The problem that we run into when trying to learn about Nicholas of Myra,

09:25the actual historical person behind the legend that we know of today as Santa Claus. So basically,

09:32the things we know for certain is that he was actually existed. So Nicholas of Myra actually

09:39existed, and he was a bishop of a town called Myra in the early, sometime in the early third century.

09:48There is rumor that he might have been at Nicaea, though it's unverified that some of the oldest

09:55list of the names of the people who attended don't include Nicholas of Myra. Even Athanasius,

10:01I think, is the one. It's in the notes. You'll look at notes there, but I think it's even Athanasius who

10:07wrote the names of all the people who attended and voted and all that stuff at Nicaea does not

10:13include Nicholas of Myra. Once again, we don't even know if this whole story about him being

10:20at the Council of Nicaea is even true. So once again, this is the headache that you run into when

10:27it comes to learning about the actual historical person of quote-unquote Saint Nicholas. But there

10:35are some fairly interesting, if I might say even humorous, accounts and legends about Nicholas. And

10:45here are some of those that I've come across and have put up for your enjoyment tonight. There's

10:52other stories that I didn't include that are in the notes. So go check those out if you want even more

10:58stories about Nicholas of Myra or the legends, the again, unconfirmed legends. But starting out from

11:04the Encyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, quote,

11:09What the historical records do not furnish is more than supplied by tradition.

11:14The stories of Saint Nicholas are numberless and many of them have even been treated in art. Many

11:20acts of such wonderful import are told of him that they may well be believed to be the inspiration

11:26of an enthusiastic mind, end quote. And a lot of these stories that we're going to be telling

11:32come from the Encyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature.

11:36They've got for their entry on Nicholas of Myra, they've actually got a ton of different stories.

11:42So you can go check that out in the notes as well. But anyways, starting out with one of these stories,

11:48or the first story that comes from this particular source about Nicholas of Myra, quote,

11:54According to these legends, Nicholas was born of illustrious Christian parents when they had been

12:00many years married without having children. And it was thought that this son was given by God

12:05as a reward for the alms which they had bestowed upon the church and the poor, as well as for the

12:11prayers they had offered up. The very day of his birth, this wonderful child, Nicholas, arose in his

12:18bath on his day he was born and joined in hands, praised God that he had brought him into the world.

12:26And from that same day, he would only take the breast on Wednesday and Friday, thus knowing how to fast

12:35from the time he knew hunger, end quote. I'm sorry, that's something that still I find humor in

12:43about every single time that one day old, just born. And he's praising God with his hands together,

12:50comes up out of the birthing tub, it looks like. And this is from day one. And he's even fasting

12:59from day one on the correct days of the week, according to this legend. I mean, it's hilarious.

13:07And from all the information I've went through about Nicholas, it seems like his family was

13:11fairly well-to-do. They gave money to the church and all other kinds of things. It seems like they

13:19were well-to-do kind of family. And it kind of plays into what Nicholas does later in his life,

13:25too, about giving money to people and especially unmarried women so they don't have to go into

13:30prostitution and stuff like that. But yeah, some of these legends like this, it's rather

13:38outrageous, in my personal opinion anyway. But moving on, quote, on a voyage, a sailor fell overboard

13:46and was drowned. But Saint Nicholas recovered him and restored his life. And when a storm arose

13:52and they were about to perish, the sailors fell at his feet and implored him to save them. And as he

13:57prayed, the storm went down, end quote. And it seems a little familiar there, like almost

14:05plagiarizing and a bit. But yeah, moving on.

14:10Another story, quote, at length, the Bishop of Myra died and a revelation was made to the clergy to the

14:17effect that the first man who should come to the church the next morning was the man whom God had

14:22chosen for their bishop. So when Nicholas came early to church to pray, as was his custom,

14:27the clergy led him into the church and consecrated him as bishop, end quote.

14:34So apparently at the time there was another Bishop of Myra and he died like humans are want to do.

14:42And when they're trying to find a new bishop or select a new bishop, they're apparently given this

14:49revelation by God that the first person they see the next day is going to be the one that God has

14:55chosen to be bishop over Myra. And it just so happens to be Nicholas. And that's how he got his

15:03bishopric is because, well, according to this legend anyways, it may not have been how he actually got it in

15:08real life. But anyways, another story, quote, at one time, Constantine sent certain tribunes to put

15:16down a rebellion in Phrygia. On their journey, they stopped at Myra and Nicholas invited them to his

15:22table. But as they were to take their seats, he heard that the prefect was about to execute three

15:28innocent men and the people were greatly moved there at. Then Nicholas hastened to the place of

15:34execution, followed by his guests. When he arrived, the men were already kneeling with their eyes

15:40bound, and the executioner was ready with his sword. Saint Nicholas seized the sword and commanded

15:47the men to be released. The tribunes looked on in wonder, but no one dared resist the good bishop.

15:53Even the prefect sought the saint's pardon, which was granted after much hesitation, end quote.

16:00So apparently, Nicholas had power over the mighty Roman Empire as well, and power to stop executions

16:08at his whim. Again, these are all legends. They're myths. There's stuff that was written hundreds of

16:15years after the actual person lived. So it's hard to tell if any part of this is actually true,

16:23if any of these stories are actually true. Moving on, continuing pretty much with the same story,

16:28but goes quote, It happened that while the tribunes were absent in Phrygia,

16:34their enemies poisoned the mind of Constantine against them, so that when they were returned

16:38to Constantinople, he accused them of treason and threw them into prison, ordering their execution

16:43the next day. Then these tribunes called upon Saint Nicholas and prayed him to deliver them.

16:49That same night, Nicholas appeared to Constantine in a dream and commanded him to release those

16:55whom he had imprisoned and threatened him with God's wrath if he obeyed not. Constantine not only

17:01released them, but sent them to Myra to thank Saint Nicholas and to present him with a copy of the

17:07gospels which was written in letters of gold and bound in covers set with pearls and rare jewels.

17:14Also, certain sailors who were in danger of shipwreck on the Aegean Sea called upon Jesus to deliver them

17:21for the sake of Saint Nicholas, and immediately the saint appeared to them saying,

17:26Here I am, my sons, for your trust in God, whose servant I am, and ye shall be saved.

17:32The sea became calm and he took them into a safe harbor. End quote.

17:36So, this is, some of these legends and myths are just, again in my opinion, just way out there.

17:44So apparently this is, this legend I just read to you is supposedly from the time he was still alive.

17:54So apparently while he was still alive, while he's still flesh and blood walking here on this earth,

17:58while he's still alive, he was able to go and appear in a dream to the ruler, the leader,

18:06the emperor, Constantine himself. He appeared in a dream while he's still alive to Constantine

18:12and told him, you know, release the men because they've been falsely accused.

18:17And he appeared again while he was still alive before he died.

18:21While he's still alive, he appeared to sailors in trouble on the sea and calm the sea.

18:26It's, yeah, take it as you will, but I'll refrain from giving my opinion anymore.

18:34You already know what I think already.

18:37But one more.

18:38This comes, again, from the Encyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature.

18:43Quote,

18:43One legend of St. Nicholas miraculously restoring to life three rich youths who had been murdered,

18:49cut up, and concealed in a saltine tub by a thievish innkeeper or butcher

18:54in whose house they had taken lodging.

18:56End quote.

18:58Now, this one is probably one of my more favorite legends or myths about the actual person,

19:05Nicholas of Myra.

19:07In this particular legend or story, there are three kids.

19:11That's usually how I hear it.

19:12It's three boys who are kidnapped by this evil innkeeper, this evil butcher.

19:19I think it's probably more of a butcher, but anyways, they're kidnapped by this evil butcher,

19:23and they are killed.

19:26Kids are killed by this evil butcher and then chopped up into pieces and put into a salt barrel

19:31or a salt tub.

19:33For those of you who don't know them, a salt tub is what they used to help preserve things

19:39back in the day.

19:40They would have this big cask or this big barrel.

19:43And especially like butchers, when they would cut up meat, they would put the meat in the barrel,

19:48put a layer of salt over it, put another layer of meat, another layer of salt, and so on and so forth

19:52until the barrel got full.

19:53And that salt being encased, that meat being encased in salt would preserve it.

19:59And that's what a salting tub is.

20:01And that's, according to this story, that's what the butcher did with these three youths.

20:07He chopped them up after he killed them and put them in these salting tubs.

20:13And according to the legend, the miracle of quote unquote Saint Nicholas was to restore

20:20them, put them all back together, all the pieces like a puzzle, put them all back together and

20:24raise them back to life.

20:27This is my favorite story of Nicholas because it is so outlandish and is so out of line with

20:36what scripture tells us about resurrections and things like that.

20:40Prove me wrong.

20:42But you look through all of the resurrections in scripture.

20:47And none of them have to do with a body being cut up or dismembered or anything of the sort.

20:57Every single person, every single instance in scripture, from what I can recall, again,

21:02if I'm wrong, let me know.

21:03And that's fine.

21:04I'd like to be educated if I am wrong.

21:06But in every story in the Bible, it's always a whole body that's being resurrected, whoever

21:14it is.

21:15And each of these people that were resurrected in scripture, their bodies were not in the

21:22grave or in the tomb long enough to decay or rot.

21:27Not Jesus, not Lazarus, not the woman's son that Ezekiel, or I'm sorry, Elijah raised up.

21:35Not the boy that, or the man that Peter, I'm sorry.

21:40Yeah, I think it's Peter in Acts resurrected.

21:44None of these were dead long enough for their bodies to decay.

21:49And none of them had to do with dismemberment.

21:54But that should tell you something right there about resurrections and scripture and how ridiculous

22:00this legend of St. Nicholas is because it's just way out there and way out of line with

22:07what scripture tells us about resurrections.

22:09But once again, form your own opinion, do your own study and research, go check out the

22:14rest of the information that we've provided for you on our website and form your own opinion

22:19as to whether any of these legends or myths carry any weight.

22:23And again, there's even more myths and legends about Nicholas and Myra that we have in our

22:29notes that we did not put in tonight's garage.

22:33So if you'd like to know more, check out the notes to read all about that.

22:37Now we start moving into the manufactured myth of Nicholas.

22:44Because from what I can tell in the research is that Nicholas, probably an okay guy, probably

22:49just regular everyday kind of guy and bishop.

22:53And this is all apart from the legends myths about him, just from what you actually hear

22:57and that he actually was against things like paganism and things like that.

23:01So quite in him eventually with the Norse God Odin and turning him into Santa Claus.

23:08He probably rolled over in his grave right now because of all that.

23:12He would have been very much against that.

23:14But anyways.

23:16Moving on to some of the myths that were manufactured about

23:20Nicholas, in addition to the ones we've already read.

23:23But this comes from the Encyclopedia Americana.

23:26Now, quote, he was Bishop of Myra, imprisoned during the Diocletian persecution and set at

23:31Liberty by Constantine the Great.

23:33He was present at the Council of Nicaea, Nicholas or old Nick being a cant name for the devil.

23:39St. Nicholas's clerks became a cant name for thieves, end quote.

23:45This is something I run into as well.

23:46And I think it's like medieval times when they had plays and these grand productions,

23:52like you would go to the play with the big binoculars and the fancy hats and dresses and all that.

23:58Before TV, anyways.

24:00And they would come out on stage and the play had a character of the devil or Satan.

24:08Before he'd come out, he would make this announcement and he would say,

24:11Ho, ho, ho.

24:13And the audience would know who was coming out at that point.

24:16And it should be in the notes, but if it's not, I'll put it in there.

24:19The reference for what I'm telling you right now.

24:22And what they would call this character is old Nick.

24:26That was the name for Satan or the devil in these plays.

24:30And that's where this whole thing comes from right here in this entry for Nicholas of Myra.

24:35Talking about how the name Nicholas or old Nick became a cant name for the devil and even went further than that.

24:43When people used to say the phrase St. Nicholas's clerks,

24:46They were actually referring to thieves as those who did work on behalf of Satan.

24:55Because Satan does all the immoral stuff like the lying and stealing and thieving and adultery and murder and et cetera, et cetera.

25:04So St. Nicholas's clerks is kind of a nudge and a nod to the thieves as actually being a part of Satan's plan.

25:13But going on, looking at the Encyclopedia Britannica, quote,

25:17That's another thing.

25:46Is that the whole story of him being at Nicaea, the first, quote unquote, ecumenical council of the church,

25:56He more than likely was not there.

25:58And there's another story that goes along with him being at Nicaea.

26:02And that probably didn't happen either.

26:03In fact, it's 99% certain that that story didn't happen.

26:08We'll get to that in just a moment.

26:11Looking at the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, quote,

26:14Nicholas eventually became the patron saint of children, sailors, and merchants of Greece and of Russia

26:19and was finally transformed in America as Santa Claus, end quote.

26:24Yet another myth has come about based on a guy who lived more than a thousand years before the whole Santa Claus fairy tale was come up with.

26:37Then finally, looking at the Catholic Encyclopedia, quote,

26:40In Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, they have the custom of making him the secret purveyor of gifts to children on 6th December,

26:49the day on which the church celebrates his feast.

26:52In the United States and some other countries,

26:54Saint Nicholas has become identified with the popular Santa Claus who distributes gifts to children on Christmas Eve.

27:00Up to the present day, an oily substance known as Mena de Saint Nicola,

27:06which is highly valued for his medicinal powers, is said to flow from his remains or from his relics.

27:13And that is, oh, sorry, end quote.

27:17And that's just rather disturbing.

27:19There's a whole story that goes behind his remains and his relics.

27:22There was a church or basilica that was consecrated in Myra in his honor and his remains were put in there for consecration, veneration, et cetera, et cetera.

27:37Well, eventually the Saracen, I guess the Saracens, come through and took over the area around Myra and the temple was destroyed.

27:44But there were still like three monks who guarded the relics and what was left of the church.

27:49And then eventually there were some other people who came along later and took those relics, those remains of Nicholas of Myra and went to Bari, B-A-R-I.

28:01And that's supposedly where those relics are now.

28:05But it said that once it moved to, I think it's Bari after that,

28:09there was an oily substance that started coming out of his relics where his body was.

28:15And they say it has medicinal powers.

28:22And yeah, things coming from a decaying body is not something I want on me or in me or anything like that.

28:30I mean, I'm a believer in miracles.

28:31I really am.

28:33But oily, decomposing human bodies, you would have to prove to me that it's a miracle.

28:40And that's medicinal and it's divinely medicinal.

28:45Anyways, it's just, yeah, that's one of the more outrageous parts of the whole legends and myths behind the person Nicholas of Myra.

28:56But anyways, the story goes that at Nicaea, supposedly this whole thing had to do with, no, sorry, Alexander and Arius, two priests from Alexandria, Egypt.

29:14And they couldn't decide on a doctrine between themselves.

29:19And this whole conflict eventually spilled over into the rest of Christianity.

29:23And that's why the whole Council of Nicaea was convened.

29:26But anyways, on the side of Alexander was supposedly Nicholas of Myra.

29:32We don't know because Nicholas probably wasn't even there.

29:36Anyways, the story goes that Nicholas was there on the side of Alexander in the Council of Nicaea.

29:42And that he got so upset with Arius, because apparently he too could not come to terms or some kind of sort of agreement with Arius.

29:52And so he eventually ended up punching or slapping Arius during that first, quote unquote, ecumenical Council of Nicaea.

30:01The story there of Santa Claus slapping Arius is pure fiction that I have not found anyone who lands any credence whatsoever to that story.

30:16And this whole saint thing is a Catholic invention anyways.

30:20And even the Catholic sources I looked at did not give any sort of credibility to this story.

30:26So it's most likely did not happen.

30:29Once again, if you have any credible sources that point to this actually being something that did happen, please send it to me.

30:36I would love to see it, love to look it over, things like that.

30:40But I have yet to find anything credible to back up this story about Nicholas slapping or punching Arius at the Council of Nicaea.

30:50It's just pure fiction.

30:53And all these legends and myths, it's almost understandable at a time when people want to be entertained.

31:00They want to be uplifted.

31:02They want to think highly of their heroes, whether it's military combatants or heroes of the faith, et cetera, et cetera.

31:12And this is a time before Hollywood, a time before TV, even a time really before novels and books.

31:20So these stories that got passed around were by word of mouth.

31:23And you can understand how they might have gotten embellished from one person to another.

31:27And eventually with elements of the story that never actually occurred.

31:33So anyways, that's the trouble with Nicholas.

31:36And some of these legends and myths are fairly entertaining and even humorous at times.

31:42But all in all, they're fairly ridiculous.

31:45And what we do know about the actual historical person, Nicholas of Myra, is very, very few.

31:51We know that he actually existed, he was an actual person, and that he lived in the early 4th century, and that he was Bishop of Myra.

32:00That's about it.

32:02All these other miracles they performed, nothing to back it up.

32:06No slapping people around in great councils, nothing to back that up.

32:11No putting the puzzle pieces of chopped up little boys back together.

32:16There's no credible evidence for that.

32:18In fact, there's very, very little evidence that we have that we know for sure is true about the historical person, Nicholas of Myra.

32:28And that's just the God honest truth.

32:32We hope that you enjoyed this.

32:35There wasn't much to it because there's not much historical, verifiable information about Nicholas of Myra.

32:41So that's why it was shorter than most.

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