Gardener in Galilee finds 700-year-old St Nicholas ring
Christian Today staff writer Mon 26 Feb 2018 12:06 GMT
A rare, intact bronze ring from the Middle Ages, bearing the image of St Nicholas, popularly known in the West today as Santa Claus, was discovered by chance during recent landscaping work in the garden of a home in a community in the Jezreel Valley, lower Galilee.
The Israel Antiquities Authority said that there is no comparable ring in the its national treasure department.
A gardener, Dekel Ben-Shitrit, 26, made the discovery while weeding last Thursday. 'I rubbed it slightly and I saw it was carved with a human image inside a frame,' he said.
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