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Entry: The Real St. Nicholas Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_st_nicholas#10839 Post contents: <I>The story about St. Nicolaus and Arius is, sadly, apocryphal. </I> <<B>"You have no way of knowing that, Napoleon."</B> I trust tradition on this. AFAIK, Msgr Hughes has it right, +++++++++++ begin quotes ++++++++++ THE CHURCH IN CRISIS: A History of the General Councils: 325-1870 "But we are very far from possessing anything like a full history of this first Council of Nicaea. Of any official record of the day-today proceedings--the acta of the council--there is no trace. The earliest historians, from whose accounts our knowledge must derive, were in large measure partisan writers. And of the two writers who were present at the council, the one who was a historian[5] was an ally of the heretics and the quasi-official panegyrist of the emperor Constantine who called the council; and the other,[6] though he has much indeed to say about the council, does not anywhere profess to be writing a record of its acts. 5. Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea (?265-338). 6. St. Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria ( 328-73); born ?295. +++++ end quotes +++++++++++++++++++ Besides, I LOVE the story. Sent at: 2008 10 12