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The most popular "dedmorozovskoe" name - Nicholas. The prototype of Santa Claus is St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. He was a good worker of miracles and persecutor of evil, the patron saint of lost and abducted children.
When seventeen centuries ago in the distant Asiatic provinces of the Roman Empire, Lycia, in the seaside town of Patara, a boy was born Nicholas, nobody guessed that one day it will turn into Santa Claus. The Mediterranean climate of strong frosts is different, and in cold countries for the whole of his long life of St. Nicholas - he is - the saint of God, Bishop of Myra, he's - Nicholas, also known as - Santa Claus - have never been.
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