Eric Hawthorne > There are more mysteries to be solved here, clearly. For sure :-) As you know Santa Claus is nothing more and nothing less than St. Nicholas of Myra (Lycia), http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=35 whose relics are in Bari (Italy), under the name of San Nicola di Bari. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11063b.htm http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nicholas-bari.html http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GL-vol2-nicholas.html As you can see (or read) the relics continued to exude, to stream manna, water, oil, myrtle, myrrha just as they had in Myra. From the earliest time St. Nicholas devotees have asked for protection and health in mind and body through the use of the manna. It was diluted and made available (ahem, for sale!) in bottles decorated with images of the saint. Over the centuries a unique art of painting these glass bottles developed in Apulia. Every year the translation of the Nicholas relics to Bari is celebrated with a great festival which culminates in the extraction of the manna by the rector of the Basilica. http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=41 http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=42 http://www.stnicholascenter.org/stnic/images/bari-manna-bottle-wmaster.jpg
s. [Oh, forgot to mention the MTI, the many times in one world interpretation, which has been proved many times in laboratories, using laser pulses, well .... next time!]
