St. Nikolaus is the sailors Guardian Angel. To him they pried for a happy journey and it was for him you called when you were in distress. In his company, it has been told; an angel and a devil had accomplished him. If you think about it, that it isn’t so strange that in almost every seaport you can find a church or a chapel that is named after him. During the 1500 – century it there has been approximate 2000 Nikolaus churches.
St Nikolaus should have been a bishop from Myra (today Demre, a small town I Smaller Asia) he should have died December 6 sometime in the beginning of 300 –century after Christ. He could have got that day only because that it would fit just at the same day the celebrations of Poseidon took place. The tasks can precisely as the stories about St. Nikolaus not be confirmed so they are exactly what they say stories, for example the one were he supposing had knocked down an arian and as a punishment have been deprived his mitre.
The stories tell us, that in Russia it has been said that if God dies they put in St. Nikolaus in his place. The name Nikolaus means the peoples victory and his memory is celebrated in the 6:th of December, in for ex. Germany, were he once upon a time was self-exposed by those who didn’t like saints and the peoples adoration towards them. The Protestants somehow succeeded in moving the day for Nikolausgifts to December 24^th were the gifts could be seen as gifts the three wise men brought to the Christ child