Demre & Myra

That famous poem attributed to Clement Clarke Moore begins, “’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…” and tells of a jolly, white-bearded old man who comes down the chimney. The poem is called ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’. But did you know that the old man children wait for every year was in fact a bishop who lived on the Mediterranean coast, in Lycia?