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  2. Saint Nicholas - Wikipedia

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    Large icon of Saint Nicholas painted in 1294 for the Lipno Church. Saint Nicholas is a popular subject portrayed on Eastern Orthodox icons, particularly Russian and Serbian ones. He is depicted as an Orthodox bishop, wearing the omophorion and holding a Gospel Book. Sometimes he is depicted wearing the Eastern Orthodox mitre, sometimes he is ...

  3. Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three innocents from death

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    Saint Nicholas on a 13th century icon (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt) The painting's narrative is based on one of the deeds of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (approximate dates of life - 270-345 AD), which he performed while serving as bishop in Myra , a city located in Lycia (present-day Turkey , specifically the Turkish province ...

  4. Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari

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    17th-century icon of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra (Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland). In 1087, nobles and merchants of Bari, Italy, visited the relics of Saint Nicholas in 1087 after finding out their resting-place from the monks who guarded them. According to one account, the monks showed the resting-place but then ...

  5. December 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Wikipedia

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    Icon of Our Lady of Tambov (1695) [14] [15] The miraculous apparition of St. Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Council (325) [7] [note 9] The Wonderworking icon of St. Nicholas the Drenched of St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev. [7] Name Day of Royal Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II (1918)

  6. St. Nikolai, Varna - Wikipedia

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    St. Nicholas born in Turkey and become bishop of Myra [4] The Church of St. Nicholas (Aya Nicola Kilisesi), (also ancient Myra - port of Adriake, Demre River) [5] The Church of St. Nicholas in Demre (about 50 km or 30 miles from Kaṣ) [6] In the First Crusade, year 1100, the Venetians on the way to Jaffa steal the body of St. Nicholas from a ...

  7. May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Wikipedia

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    Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari in 1087. [11] (see also: May 20 – Greek) Zaraysk Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1225) [30] Translation of the relics (1775) of Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk (1690) [24] [30] [34]

  8. Santa Claus - Wikipedia

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    Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now Demre) in the region of Lycia in the Roman Empire, today in Turkey. Nicholas was known for his generous gifts to the poor, in particular presenting the three impoverished daughters of a pious Christian with dowries so that they would not have to become prostitutes. [ 7 ]

  9. St. Nicholas Church, Demre - Wikipedia

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    Ceiling fresco. St. Nicholas Church is an ancient East Roman basilica church in the ancient city of Myra, now a museum located in modern Demre, Antalya Province, Turkey.It was built above the burial place of Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century Christian bishop of Myra, [1] [2] an important religious figure for Eastern Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics and the historical inspiration for Santa ...