English-speaking countries, his name has become corrupted into Santa Claus, the bringer of gifts to children on Christmas Eve. St. Nicholas is the patron of Russia. St. Ambrose was born of an aristocratic Roman family in Trier, Germany, in about 339. His father was praetorian prefect of Gaul (modern France), and after the father’s death, the family moved to Rome, where Ambrose studied (361–65) law. He entered (about 365) the civil
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