Jolly Old St. Nick

In the West he is reverenced as the patron of children, because of his concern, as shewn by his reputed miracles, to protect their innocence, and because of the reputed prodigies of his own precocious devotion; whereof it is related that as an infant he kept the fasts prescribed for adults, and hence never suckled more than once on Wednesdays and Fridays, and that always after sunnset, according to the Canon Law of that day.

-- Anglican Breviary, for the Legend, Feast of St. Nicholas B.C. (December 6th)