Santa Claus

Facts about St Nicholas according to Wikipedia:

• St Nicholas was an ordained priest.

• St. Nick is a patron saint of children, yes... but he's also the patron saint of prostitutes, pharmacists, pawnbrokers and prisoners.

• St. Nicholas was a Turk. He was from Patara in the province of Lycia which was on the mediterranean coast of Hellenistic Asia Minor.

• In the Netherlands, Sinterklaas sails up from Spain with his little buddy, a freed slave named Black Pete. He gives bad kids bundles of sticks. Those wacky Dutch.

• In the early 11th century sailors stole St. Nicholas's remains. They were said to exude myrrh.