text:  was the patron saint of sailors. And what we forget with our modern version with him in a sleigh and all that kind of thing is that, in fact, he was a saint of the Mediterranean and was known for calming storms and, like, pulling people out of the water by their hair and flying them over to safety. The idea is you're a port city, you get this saint, Saint Nicholas the Navigator, and suddenly all these sailors are going to want to set out