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Myra is located roughly 40 km (25 mi) east of Gemile and its location further inland made it safer from seafaring Arab forces. [61] It is said that, in Myra, the relics of Saint Nicholas each year exuded a clear watery liquid which smelled like rose water, called manna, or myrrh, which was believed by the faithful to possess miraculous powers. [63]
In 1884, Ilya Repin was commissioned by a nunnery near Kharkiv to create an image of Saint Nicholas of Myra (Nicholas the Wonderworker). [15] [16] As the writer and historian Dmytro Yavornytsky recalled in a conversation with him, Repin mentioned that the person who commissioned the image of Nicholas the Wonderworker was the hegumen of the Nicholas Convent in the village of Strilecha ...
Saint Nicholas Day, also called the "Feast of Saint Nicholas", observed on 6 December (or on its eve on 5 December) in Western Christian countries, and on 19 December in Eastern Christian countries using the old church Calendar, is the feast day of Saint Nicholas of Myra; it falls within the season of Advent. [3]
He died in Myra in 564 shortly after he was ordained bishop of Pinara. During the course of his lifetime, he travelled to Jerusalem twice and was reputed to have performed healing miracles . The identity of his hagiographer is not known, but scholars believe [ 1 ] his biography was written sometime in the 6th or 7th centuries, presumably by a ...
Tito Jackson, who rose to fame alongside his brothers in the Jackson 5, has died.The Claremore resident was 70. Tito's sons — Taj, Taryll and TJ Jackson — confirmed his death in an Instagram ...
Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek Νικόλαος, Nikolaos. It originally derived from a combination of two Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In turn, the name means "victory of the people."
Tito Jackson, born October 15, 1953, per IMDb, was the third child in the Jackson family.. His musical talents emerged at an early age, according to a family anecdote shared by the official ...
Jackson began accruing debt as early as 1993, according to the L.A. Times. He reportedly owed $140 million by 1998 and Jackson’s debt increased by nearly $170 million between June 2001 and June ...