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From the Wikipedia page for Saint Nicholas
Other early stories tell of him calming a storm at sea, saving three innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and chopping down a tree possessed by a demon.
Which he then turned into a toy car and gave to my kids to play with. Cause I fucking swear my kids are possessed.
Last one is just plot of Samurai Jack.
Those children look like very wrong.
The painter had never seen a child, so, I think he did a nice job.
We’ve all read Pet Semetary, right?
They remind me of Attack on Titan, but miniature.
Attack on a bunch of short dudes.
I hated them tiny ones.
Now I’m thinking of titans the size of these mabies, but with the strength of the titans.
Stop looking at their asses
i’m more looking at the chest hair
it’s the back abs, for me
Ok so he just let people starve instead of having them have even three measly pickled children. Fucking priests, the REAL Jesus would have turned those three kids into a pickled feast feeding at least five thousand.
Don’t worry, it’s a made up story anyway
you mean to tell me there wasn’t actually a depickling necromancer roaming the streets?
Never thought I’d see this combination of words in my lifetime
Now I am imagining an anthropomorphic cucumber going around turning my pickles into seeds and planting them in soil.
That guy exists. His name is Rick.
That was a pre-jolly Saint Nicholas.
he also got into a fist fight at the nicean council
Remember when Christians used to care for the hungry?
Renaissance Artist Draw An Actual Child Challenge: Impossible
Santa also punched a dude at the Council of Nicea
Allegedly struck a guy over an argument about the hierarchy of the godhead. Although this is recognized as apocryphal, not showing up in accounts until hagiographies hundreds of years later.
I think the resurrection thing is probably true, though.
Is Santa Saint Nicholas of Myra? Because where I live, Nikolaus and Santa are two different entities. One has a bishop’s rod and hands out candy at December 6th, the other drinks coca cola, rides a sleigh and hands out presents at Christmas.
His necromancer career lacked longevity which is a key metric to determine memory.
Saint Picholas
1 going on 30 with those bald spots.
Reason might be that it weren’t kids in the variant of the legend the painting is based on, but a kind of medieval travelling clerics on their way to Athens. Says so in the German Wikipedia.
Medieval paintings didn’t care for realistic size comparisons, so might well have been misinterpreted as kids in later times.Maybe St. Nick half-assed the sign of the cross. So when the traveling clerics were resurrected, they got resurrected in fun sized.
why is it called “fun” sized?
Because “lesser portion” doesn’t hit the same.
Here in Flanders and to the north in the Netherlands we actually get told this story. Sinterklaas, who visits on the eve of the 5th (NL) or during the night (BE) is our OG Santa Claus.
For kids Sinterklaas is the main event, whereas Christmas is when you get given… socks. Last few years the focus seems to have shifted more to Christmas though.
Glad we got rid of ‘Zwartepiet’ though (Sinterklaas’s helpers). Think ‘elves’ except human-size, not-elf and with blackface.
I grew up attending international schools. Seeing my Dutch classmate dressed as zwartepiet getting called to the principal’s office is a core memory.
We also celebrate saint Nick on 5-6th of december. We never had the weird zwartepiet but Miklavž (ole Nick is accompanied by angels and krampus)
Huh… TIL other countries do Sinterklaas as well. Miklavž… That’s Slovenian, going by the wikipedia page?
“resurrected the pickled children” goes hard.
Resurrected Pickled Children sounds like a good metal band.
“The pickled children” sounds like a metal band name
I was gonna say St. Nick and the Pickled Children and call it a garage band.
Pickle Nick!
