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Heliolord t1_iui7wsp wrote

Reply to comment by South_Data2898 in TIL that one of the most popular medieval legends about Saint Nicholas of Myra (the original basis for the legend of Santa Claus) involves him magically resurrecting three children who were murdered by an evil butcher and sold as cured meat. by themightyheptagon

He also whipped the asses of a bunch of people who turned a church into a den of greed and vice.

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joey_blabla t1_iuj8wzm wrote

But he was a teenage boy back then, so it was more an edgy socialist phase

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