Spoiler alarm to all the kids out there : Santa Claus is n’t real , which is a disgrace because unlike most notional beings , this one give you presents once a year . He was , however , based on Saint Nicholas , a man that last during the fourth hundred who did indeed have a use of handing out gifts to multitude in enigma .
Now , as reported byThe Telegraph , an dauntless team of archaeologists has claim to have found the tomb of the saint himself . It ’s site beneath a church in Demre , in southern Turkey – and if you needed any more confirmation that he ’s not exist it up in Lapland with hob and flying caribou , this is it . Sorry , younglings .
The Christian church , in Antalya province , was surveyed of late using things like ground - penetrating microwave radar , and the squad noticed a pocket-sized , human - sized gap beneath the Earth’s surface , among other things .
All the evidence points towards there being a tomb there , and plainly , it ’s a good stake that Saint Nicholas ’ remains will be found there . Getting to them will be tricksy . The floor of the ancient Christian church is traverse in mosaics , which will have to be removed extremely carefully .
Saint Nicholas died back in the class 343 , but for C was interred at the church building until vanish in the 11thcentury . There ’s a chance that Italian smugglers could have thieved his os , but according to Turkish archaeologist , they may have steal the incorrect ones . The tomb that was suspected of belonging to the giving - giver is probably that of another , unknown non-Christian priest . As perThe Independent , it ’s also possible the grave of the famous holy person is on the Mediterranean isalnd of Gemile , although this claim , made in 1993 , was free-base on some extremely circumstantial evidence .
It is likely , although far from sealed , that the long - all in philanthropist is still resting in peace underneath Demre . Interestingly , Saint Nicholas is recall to have been born in the same city . Unlike the Santa Claus of fable , he does n’t seem to have gotten around that much .
Either way , it ’s definitely this religious number that the modern story of Father Christmas uprise from . aside from being something of a Christian Jedi – his ability to uprise people that were literally butchered , for model , gained him the nickname of “ Nikolas the Wonderworker ” – he sounded like a fairly adorable human , helping out those in want .
One story has him anonymously throwing purses of money into the window of a house in which three destitute girl doomed to become prostitutes lived . Whether or not tales like this were true proved irrelevant to the Dutch , who translated his name into “ Sinterklaas ” – which , you think it , is where we get the name Santa Claus from .
