Christmas and Saint Nicholas
Christmas is a wonderful time of year as we celebrate the birth of the Savior. Every Christmas I think about how we hear less and less of the traditional songs of Christmas. We hear more of Santa Claus, but even Santa Claus is starting to be replaced with other stories, which are fun and all. But what about the true story of Saint Nick? What about the real Reason for the Season? The Christ was born. He who has saved mankind, so that mankind may be reunited with the Tree of Eternal Life. As Latter-Day Saints, we don't learn much of the Early Christian or Catholic Saints, at least not at church. Not because they weren't important, but because their stories happen after the Apostasy and before the restoration of the Gospel, but the true Story of Saint Nicolas plays an important role in the history of scripture. Saint Nicholas lived around 300AD, the turning point of the Roman Empire when it went from persecuting Christians to proclaiming Christianity as the official religion...