VIDEO: Saint Nicholas of Myra – the Real Santa Claus (The Reliquary)

30 thoughts on “VIDEO: Saint Nicholas of Myra – the Real Santa Claus (The Reliquary)”

1. It kinda sucks how such a great saint became so commercialized and became reduced to a mixed caricature of himself :/

2. Greatings from Bari (Puglia, Italy) the city were is the body of Saint Nicholas of Myra.

3. Fun fact: there are so many relics of Saint Nicholas, that his face has been reconstructed!

4. 3:53
   What? No one took notice of the old crone with the rose from Disney's Beauty And The Beast, symbolizing the Saint's hospitality? No mention in the comments?

   A grievous oversight. Accolades to Bojan for this whimsical touch.

5. Hello Bojan, will you do a video on how st. Elijah, from the old testament, became known as Elijah the thunderer, do you think this is so because the folk slavic paganism (there is a slavic god named Perun, the god of thunder) merged with Christian beliefs? Btw I love your videos. 👍

6. Hello! Have a merry Christmas
   Its also my birthday tommorow 😀

7. bishops then were doing awesome things as having slap-fights and rescuing pickled children, while bishops today just settle with schisms, lawsuits, and ██ █████ ███-█ █████

   any time past was better, as a Spanish proverb would say

8. "Pleasure and tears" was funny and sad at the same time.
   Is it ok that I found it super funny when "Unlike shipwreck Paul" scene came?
   Also, "the crown" as santa claus hat was great.
   And I can't wait for my kids to grow up enough so I can teach them that even santa can go to jail.

9. Boyan – on the second video on St Nicholas’s legacy please add info on why the saint is so revered in Russia. Few years ago, the pope allowed some major bone to be sent to Russia for a visit. The out pouring of the Russian people and the church priests and bishops was huge. Amazing!

10. Unlike St. Paul who was shipwrecked 😂🤣. That’s a good one

11. Hey bojan, I love your videos! I am not religious and don't plan on being anytime soon. But I love your videos and I also enjoy learning more about the orthodox church considering where I live there are no othrodox churches. Please keep up the great work and I hope you keep spreading your good message

12. Are all people named Nicholas only children? My name is Nicholas, and I’m also an only child.

13. Just used this video in Sunday School lesson! Amazing timing! God bless from Canada

14. Will be a video about st. Basileos the Great?

15. Iam not a Christian at all Iam a Muslim but respect my Christian brothers especially the Orthodox and love Saint Nicholas ❤️❤️

16. Bojan, what are your thoughts on universalism as it is getting very trendy in EO with David Bentley Hart and others?

17. Are the black halos (nega-halos, anti-halos?) you put on negative figures a thing in Orthodox iconography? If so are there rules on who gets them?

18. Bojan, throughout my 21-year life, I've experienced some disturbing visions, and I'm not sure which ones are true and which ones are false (resulting from prelest). Being in the Philippines, I can't get myself baptized, let alone an advising spiritual father. What can I do to help?

19. In Scandinavia we have not a nice Saint from Myra, we have his great grandfather "Tomten" who helped farmers and their animals as far back as in the pagan times. Tomten was with us long before Christianity existed. When Christianity came to us, we kept to our pagan friend Tomten. His name is so old that no one knows what the word means. So even today Tomten comes to the children every 24th of December. In Mid Winter the pagans celebrated the New Year by offer pigs blood to our pagan gods. And even today we eat pork every 24th of December. And we never started to call it "Christmas", we still have the pagan word "Jul" (Yule in English). But of course the Jesus Child plays a big role every year. So our celebration is mixed between pagan and christian. So Merry Christmas! (or God Jul = Good Yule!).

20. Thank you so much for your work. It helps me to be a better Christian and teach others

21. Christ ain’t divine
    Tick tick tick
    In comes a right hook from old Saint Nick

22. I don't know it was of Nicholas to assault Arius. As for his disagreement i suppose that's fine

23. I want to wish you a merry Christmas. May you have many more.

24. Saint. Nicolas Is Santa Claus

25. I once asked a Nicholas in my parish if he was going to smack a heretic to celebrate his name day. He didn't get the joke.

26. Thank you so much for the video.The video was probably the gift for my nameday😉

27. St. Nicholas is a great person who connects the Catholic and Orthodox Churches
    ☦️❤️✝️

28. Your version is slightly different than mine but has the same concept.

29. A newborn baby would not fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, nor would God expect it. Children experience pain when they are hungry (that's why they cry), unlike adults, who can more or less ignore their hunger for a time. This sounds like one of the stories people made up in the century after the Apostles, like the Protoevangelium of James, which have a lot of gratuitous and unnecessary contents but which the people loved to hear. These stories are non-canonical, though I suppose it doesn't hurt to believe them. No offense.

30. Why do you use the word "Palestine" to refer to Israel?

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