The modern-day Santa Claus can be traced back to a Byzantine bishop named St. Nicholas who had numerous stories and miracles attributed to him.
We hear about one such story in which St. Nicholas fought against a miscarriage of justice, that caught the imagination of Brian Thornton, a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Winchester.
An artist's depiction of Saint Nicholas of Myra saving three men from death. Photo: Ilya Repin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, CC
