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Where on earth did you get your sooooo wrong information about St. Nicholas? It certainly wasn't from the encyclopedia Britannica!

Nicholas of Lyre is not "Santa." St. Nicholas, whose feast day is December 6th, is Nicholas of Bari sometimes called Nicholas of Myra and lived in the 4th century. The dates 1265-1349 A.D may be related to Nicholas of Lyre, but this is not St. Nicolas related to Santa Claus.

If you're gonna write an article, get it right.

I don't use the Encyclopedia for information...Most people do tho, so I used the reference from it for the intro into this article. I research my topics using Christian sources... they are the only reliable sources available to me. I wouldn't rely on the encyclopedias in that way... the information found in them is a general type of info and usually unreliable....you should check into it more effeciently before you post next time. A simple request of where I got my info would have been better...:)

In this case, the author who wrote the article for Christianity Today helped me with this one...