How come nobody told me about St Nicholas and his three boys?
Saint Nicholas with the Three Boys in the Pickling Tub
ca. 1500
South Netherlandish
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Master of the Lübeck Bible, Saint Nicholas Rescues Three Youths From a Tub from the Spinola Hours (Ms. Ludwig IX 18, fol. 261v), 1510-1520, tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment.
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According to popular legend, Saint Nicholas restored life to three boys who had been killed by a butcher and thrown into a pickling tub.
Attributed to Jean Pochore, Saint Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths, early 16th century, tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment.
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Attributed to the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary, Saint Nicholas Restores the Life to Three Children in a Pickling Tub, beginning 16th century, tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment
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Pickling tub? St Nick liked his boys in a pickle?
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Apparently, you're supposed to hang a pickle on your Christmas tree.
I would rather hang a boy!
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Doesn't one of the stories bout St Nick centre on his attendance at the Council of Nicaea? Listening to one debaters argue that the Son of God wasn't coeternal with God, he got so incensed that he went down & started slapping him a few punches. Now THAT'S how debates should roll.
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Sadly the story is a post-medieval Greek legend. Pity.
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