The Real Santa Claus

For anyone interested there is an excellent website http://www.stnicholascenter.org/ which is packed with historical information and teaching materials on Saint Nicholas aka Santa Claus. I was lucky to have spent some of my childhood in Bruxelles where Father Christmas was referred to by his proper name. The more I have read about St Nick the more I feel that this is great saint who has much to teach us today. The use of his large inheritance, his ministry as a bishop and his imprisonment during the Diocletian tyranny point to a spiritual giant. There is also compelling evidence that he was present at the Council of Nicea - something which the idiotic pseudo-historian Dan Brown would probably never concede. Just when so many are trying to rubbish the modern Church as a calculated invention of Emperor Constantine here is a friendly familiar voice from that era telling us otherwise. So here's parting thought, the next time you are in church with a child and you hear the Creed - tell them Santa wrote it.