Not widely reported in the USA, for some reason or another.....
French police have arrested a suspect who allegedly stole and burned the bones of St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, from a basilica in Lorraine on Oct. 28....
...The police immediately opened an investigation into the incident. The alleged theft occurred at the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Lorraine, according to the Brussels Signal.
French police identified the suspect, who has not publicly been named...
Not named by the utterly-PC French cops.
That raises...........suspicions..........right?
St Nick is also known as Santa Claus.
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Today is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours
A Roman soldier turned Bishop!
Patron Saint of conscientious objectors!
Martinmas
https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=81
Or
No feasting with out fasting
https://www.padreperegrino.org/2021/11/no-feasting-without-fasting/
Butlers lives of the saints -
St Nicholas
……We are told that in his infancy he observed the fasts of Wednesdays and Fridays, refusing to suck the breasts on those days……
…..Happy are they who, from their infancy and innocent age, are inured to the exercises of devotion, penance, and perfect obedience…..
…..The history of the translation of his relics place his death in 342. He died at Myra, and was buried in his own cathedral.6 Several churches were built in his honour, even in the West, long before the translation of his relics to Bari: and the manner in which Usuard mentions him in his Martyrology, almost three ages before, shows in what great veneration his name then was in the West. The history of the translation of his relics to Bari, assures us, that no saint was more universally honoured in all Christian nations than St. Nicholas. The Muscovites, who received their account of him from the Greeks, seem to pay a greater veneration to his memory than to that of any other saint who lived since the times of the apostles. The relics of St. Nicholas were kept with great honour at Myra till they were translated into Italy. Certain merchants of Bari, a sea-port in the kingdom of Naples, situate on the Adriatic Gulf, sailed in three ships to the coast of Lycia; and watching an opportunity when no Mahometans were near the place, went to the church in which the relics of St. Nicholas were kept, which stood in a desert place, three miles from the sea, and was guarded hy a small community of monks. They broke open the marble coffin, in which the sacred bones lay, and carried them off to their ships; the inhabitants, upon the alarm given, pursued them to the shore with horrible outcries, but the Europeans were got safe on board. They landed at Bari on the 9th of May, 1087, and the sacred treasure was deposited by the archbishop in the church of St. Stephen. On the first day, thirty persons were cured of various distempers, imploring the intercession of St. Nicholas, and from that time the tomb of St. Nicholas of Bari has been famous for pilgrimages.……
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/classic-sources/butlers-life
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