Saint Nicholas, Patron Saint Illustrated

Artist Elizabeth Rivinis Leydon painted these Saint Nicholas Patron Saint watercolors for her brother Will Rivinis. A historian, he seriously studied, researched, and collected information and more about both St. Nicholas and Santa Claus.

Once on a sea voyage at night

When the wind drove the waves to great height,

The men would have perished

From life that they cherished,

Had not St Nick set things aright.

Once it was said of St. Nick,

That at sea when the weather was slick

A sailor fell dead

From the crosstsrees o'er head,

But St Nick restored life again quick.

Penniless nobleman sigh,

For your doweryless daughters do dry.

Saint Nick heard their plights

And he rode out three nights

Leaving gold at the window near by.

Once in two eighty A.D.

Young St. Nicholas enthralled the countree.

So brilliant his wit

That great scholars sought it,

And the truth he would help them to see.

There once was a thief oh so bold

Who stole all the gold he could hold.

Saint Nicholas came by

And convinced him to try

And live the good life so e're told.

Gluttonous innkeeper fie!
That young students you chopped up to die
Putting them in your stew.
But St Nicholas came through
And restored them with prayers and a sign.

Watercolors by Elizabeth Rivinis Leydon, St. Nicholas Center from the Will Rivinis Collection.