St. Nicholas's feast day is on 6th December.
He was born in Lycia, in Asia Minor and took
note of Jesus's words to "sell what you own
and give the money to the poor". He used his
inheritance to help those who were in need,
sick, or suffering. He allegedly gave three
bags of gold to a poor man with three
daughters. Each bag was a 'dowry' without
which a woman was unlikely to marry. It's
said that the gold was tossed through an
open window, & landed in stockings or shoes
left before the fire to dry. Santa Claus
(the name is a phonetic alteration from the
German Sankt Niklaus and the Dutch
Sinterklaas) evolved from drawings by
political cartoonist Thomas Nast in Harper's
Weekly.