Obviously, Santa has no biblical connection. But what about 'Saint' Nicholas?
The legend surrounding Nicholas, before he became the fat, white-bearded, red-suited elf, states that he was a fourth-century bishop in the seaport of Myra on the south coast of what is now Turkey. Incidentally, it was a town the apostle Paul had stopped at a couple hundred years earlier when he was being dragged in chains to Rome. (You can read about that adventure in my novel The Minotaur Medallion.)
