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St. Nicholas continued to go about doing good but when Nicholas was 65 he died. Today St. Nicholas church in Turkey stands as a testament to a most remarkable person. St. Nicholas is a rare Catholic bishop who has survived the condemnation of the Reformation. Thhus you see St. Nicholas honored throughout Europe in both Catholic and Protesant countries. Even more interestingly, even in Protesant countries like the Netherlands, he continues to decpictured in the very identifiable trapings of a Catholic bishop. It was thriugh the Dutch in New Amsterdam that Sinterclaus was transferred to a still very Protestant America, alhough he became known as Santa Claus. St. Nicholas is still widely thought of as a saint even though his sainthood was reappraised in 1969. He is the patron saint of Russia. His doings have made him the patron saint of unmarried women, of sailors, merchants, pawnbrokers and teachers. Best of all he is the patron saint of children. It was in Nicholas's childhood that he had the idea of secret giving. He continued with this idea in his adulthood which led to our tradition of secretly giving gifts to children in December. This is a tradition that still continues. Nicholas was a child with an extraordinary social conscience which reached its maturity in adulthood. Saint Nicholas is best known by his other name of Santa Claus.
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