The Italian town where Santa Claus is buried
Father Christmas will be delivering presents as usual during the holidays, but not in the Italian port town of Bari, where his bones lie buried beneath a church.
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Father Christmas will be delivering presents as usual during the holidays, but not in the Italian port town of Bari, where his bones lie buried beneath a church.
24. December 2020 - 15:33 On 19 th December 2020, commemoration day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, while on a working visit to Bari, Italy, officiated at the Divine Liturgy in the Basilica of St. Nicholas, on the holy relics of this saint. Concelebrating with the archpastor were Archpriest Vyacheslav Bachin, rector of the Patriarchal Metochion of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bari, and Archimandrite Avgustin (Morozov), rector of the P...