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Quotation from The Golden Legend: Popular Saints by Jacobus de Voragine; William Caxton
“And when the holy man Nicholas knew hereof he had great horror of this villainy, and threw by night secretly into the house of the man a mass of gold wrapped in a cloth”
The Golden Legend: Popular Saints, Life of St. Nicholas (Caxton/Ellis tradition)
Nicholas secretly provides the dowry money that becomes the root of his gift-giving image.
Citation: "And when the holy man Nicholas knew hereof he had great horror of this villainy, and threw by night secretly into the house of the man a mass of gold wrapped in a cloth" — Jacobus de Voragine; William Caxton, The Golden Legend: Popular Saints, Life of St. Nicholas (Caxton/Ellis tradition). (id golden-legend-popular-saints-q1)
