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== Origins ==
== Origins ==
The ultimate basis of Santa Claus is [[Saint Nicholas]] (270-343 AD), the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Bishop]] of [[Myra]]. Of the many legends attributed to him one of the most persistent is a gift of gold given to a deranged man, that his daughters may not prostitute themselves:
The ultimate basis of Santa Claus is [[Saint Nicholas]] (270-343 AD), the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Bishop]] of Myra. Of the many legends attributed to him one of the most persistent is a gift of gold given to a deranged man, that his daughters may not prostitute themselves:
:''"And when his father and mother were departed out of this life, he began to think how he might distribute his riches, and not to the praising of the world but to the honour and glory of God. And it was so that one, his neighbour, had then three daughters, virgins, and he was a nobleman: but for the poverty of them together, they were constrained, and in very purpose to abandon them to the sin of lechery, so that by the gain and winning of their infamy they might be sustained. And when the holy man Nicholas knew hereof he had great horror of this villainy, and threw by night secretly into the house of the man a mass of gold wrapped in a cloth. And when the man arose in the morning, he found this mass of gold, and rendered to God therefor great thankings, and therewith he married his oldest daughter."''<ref>https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/classic-sources/the-golden-legend</ref>
:''"And when his father and mother were departed out of this life, he began to think how he might distribute his riches, and not to the praising of the world but to the honour and glory of God. And it was so that one, his neighbour, had then three daughters, virgins, and he was a nobleman: but for the poverty of them together, they were constrained, and in very purpose to abandon them to the sin of lechery, so that by the gain and winning of their infamy they might be sustained. And when the holy man Nicholas knew hereof he had great horror of this villainy, and threw by night secretly into the house of the man a mass of gold wrapped in a cloth. And when the man arose in the morning, he found this mass of gold, and rendered to God therefor great thankings, and therewith he married his oldest daughter."''<ref>https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/classic-sources/the-golden-legend</ref>