Qui était Saint Nicolas ? Ce que nous apprennent les plus anciens documents

Saint Nicholas was a Greek bishop in the fourth century, at Myra, a little port on the southwest coast of what is now Turkey. It was a Greek province of the Roman Empire then, centuries before any Turks came there. We know the day he died, 6 December, but not the year. Almost everything else we hear about him was first written down centuries after his death, and a good deal of it is legend, though two of the oldest…