re: #359 Jay C

A few years ago, I saw a reconstruction someone had done of “Saint Nicholas“‘s face: from his skull in Bari, Italy.(Well, A skull anyway, supposedly that of old Nick: like many other medieval saints, he may have had more than one). When the forensic artist recreated the most-likely skin and hair/beard tones based on his origin as an Anatolian Greek, the result was less like what we imagine as “Santa Claus”, and more like someone who would definitely get stopped by the TSA for extra questioning….

I’m not surprised by that. We have a habti of westernizing icons which is why Megyn Kelly was so adamant that Satna was white.