Today the 6th December is St. Nicholas Day in Poland, Dzien Świętego Mikołaja, and starts off the Christmas holidays in Poland. This holiday honours St. Nicholas (Święto Mikołaj), St. Nicholas was the 4th-century Bishop of Myra in Lycia, what is now a province of Turkey. He had a reputation for secret gift-giving and is associated in some countries with Santa Claus.

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