Those are some weird as fuck looking children.

An interesting side note I just discovered on Wikipedia:

The boots-filled-over-night tradition is based on another legend of him throwing gold pieces through the window of three poor daughters so that their dad doesn't have to force them to become prostitutes.

Didn't expect the roots of St.Nicholas traditions to be that dark...

Pickle Nick!

Those children look like very wrong.

Ok so he just let people starve instead of having them have even three measly pickled children. Fucking priests, the REAL Jesus would have turned those three kids into a pickled feast feeding at least five thousand.

"resurrected the pickled children" goes hard.

Whenever he’s brought up I never miss the opportunity to mention that he was from Türkiye

Here in Flanders and to the north in the Netherlands we actually get told this story. Sinterklaas, who visits on the eve of the 5th (NL) or during the night (BE) is our OG Santa Claus.

For kids Sinterklaas is the main event, whereas Christmas is when you get given… socks. Last few years the focus seems to have shifted more to Christmas though.

Glad we got rid of ‘Zwartepiet’ though (Sinterklaas’s helpers). Think ‘elves’ except human-size, not-elf and with blackface.

I grew up attending international schools. Seeing my Dutch classmate dressed as zwartepiet getting called to the principal’s office is a core memory.

His necromancer career lacked longevity which is a key metric to determine memory.

he also got into a fist fight at the nicean council

Nah mate they (used to maybe? idk) play that song to children in schools where I grew up. The song literally says that the butcher kills the children, chop them off and cure them in salt. I never saw it that way but it's quite a hardcore children song. I wonder if they still do that lol.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas_Day

1 going on 30 with those bald spots.

From the Wikipedia page for Saint Nicholas

Other early stories tell of him calming a storm at sea, saving three innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and chopping down a tree possessed by a demon.

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"The pickled children" sounds like a metal band name

There was also that time he slapped a bishop for teaching the heresy that Jesus was less than God

Santa also punched a dude at the Council of Nicea

Saint Picholas

Remember when Christians used to care for the hungry?

That was a pre-jolly Saint Nicholas.

He also lived in what is today Turkey, and has probably never seen a reindeer.

The Santa job required relocation and new means of transportation.

Those babies are ripped AF

gotta love medieval babies with sixpacks

Wow...

The 6th of December could have a soooo much different character... 😆

I also just realized that I have only 2 days left to buy some sweets and stuff to put into my kid's boots.