319. Heist of St Nicolas: The Medieval Mafia Who Stole Santa (Part 2)
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnan. And me, William DeRumpel. And this is uh the second episode with the wonderful Sam DeRumpel, author of Shattered Lands, which we also covered in this podcast. Welcome back to you, Sam.
Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. And uh if we had to do a little subtitle of this second episode, because in the first one we were talking about the origins of the real Saint Nicholas and where his tomb is and all of these different cults which kind of merge into this one character that we now know is Saint Nick. This one I think we would have as a subheading, Who stole Santa? Because it is the story of one of the most extraordinary
you couldn't believe it, uh, heists. So by the turn of the first millennium, Saint Nicholas, as we've established in the last episode, was already famous. So you have pilgrims coming, believing that his bones might be able to produce um actually a healing liquid called myrrh, which I think is tickles me as well, because it's also Christmassy and also macabre and Myra itself is named is this right after myrrh? That's right, isn't it?
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