Osint Advent2024 Day 6
29 January 2025
Sixth day, December 6th

Let’s find this mysterious companion of Saint Nicholas. Go to wikipedia and find the link to the “Companions of Saint Nicholas” article

English version of the article is poor, let’s check other languages. French one looks the best. Turn on the translation plugin in browser to be able to make text search:

There are no words like knight or armor on this page, but we find the ‘horse’ pattern there

Looks like we need to check Hans Trapp. Open the article about him and see the tower image on the right of the page.

It’s called “Little France”, check the Wikipedia page about it and find the german name of this castle - Klein-Frankreich

And this is the correct answer

The next step is to find the names of two saints engraved on the Hans von Trotha’s stone. Googling “Hans von Trotha’s stone” doesn’t give us anything.
Let’s return to our previous searches’s results. Google search results by “saint nicolas chevalier compagnons” phrase in French contains the link to some pdf file with historical information about Saint Nicholas and Hans von Trotha

Text search by ‘saint’ in pdf gives us several results, and one of them is the required one

So, Simon and Jude is the correct answer!

Used tools and services
- Wikipedia
- Google Text Search
- Translation plugin in browser (or the standard option of your browser)