While everyone else is tracking Santa Claus on NORAD, I’m resting comfortably in my bed knowing that a fat man in a red velour jumpsuit will not be shimmying down my chimney tonight. It’s not that I don’t believe in Santa.
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It’s just that Santa is dead. And his body’s buried in Ireland.
Like I said, it’s not that I don’t believe in Santa. I do believe he was a real man – a charitable one who donated much of his fortune to the less fortunate — who is now believed to be buried in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
“It is an amazing story and yet very few people know about St Nicholas’s connection to this country,” Irish historian Philip Lynch told UK’s Mirror last year. “Every year now we get visitors to the site, but still not that many.”
Little is known about the historic Saint Nick. Today, he’s more widely recognized as the gift-giving omnipresent jolly man who sits upon the coolest throne in all the shopping mall. But Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra, is actually a bit of a mystery.
Saint Nicholas died some time in the 4th century, in what would now be considered part of Turkey. His remains were then transferred to Italy, and again relocated to Ireland about 800 years ago. Saint Nicholas’ final resting place is in Jerpoint Abbey in Kilkenny, Ireland’s Independent reports. Some of the saint’s relics remain in southern Italy, where they are said to release an oily substance with miraculous medicinal powers.
While you’re going deep into debt buying those Xbox 360 Kinects, it’s probably good to know that you’re giving all the glory to a man who’s buried somewhere in Ireland.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And may he RIP.
