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“It’s a nice alternative, so that we can meet the children and the children can really come see Sinterklaas in person,” Nienke Spruit, who acted as one of the saint’s jolly helpers at a drive-in in the city of Apeldoorn on Sunday, told Reuters.

“Make-up covering the whole face is outdated,” Spruit said.

Footage showed people standing in miles-long queues on a dirt track near the Mooiplaas and Spruit settlements on the outskirts of the capital, Pretoria.

The Spruit Community Support Forum, a diverse group of religious, charity and community organizations, gave out around 10,000 bags of cornmeal, vegetables, face masks, soap and sanitizers.

In 2002, for example Bruno historian Leen Spruit argued: Bruno's belief in many worlds was not “formally heretical,” but was maybe “erroneous,” “scandalous,” or “blasphemous.”