Saint Nicholas: Fact or Fiction

Adam English and Charissa, his wife, want their daughter, Cassidy, now 10, to know the truth behind Santa Did he bear any resemblance to the rosy-cheeked grandpa invented by Coca-Cola in the 1920s? Could there be fact behind that fiction? As a theology professor at Campbell University in North Carolina, Dr. English was well positioned to find out. Academically, he has long been “interested in the early Christian faith and the way that the early Church lived,” he says. He has also co-led month-long study-abroad programs to Italy, where the bones of Nicholas (at least, most of them) now rest in Bari, Italy, on the Adriatic Sea...

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