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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]
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 ...
It celebrates three times a year: on December 6, the day of the saint's memory, on May 10, more solemnly, on the day of the transfer of the holy relic of Saint Nikolaos from Myra, Lycia in Asia Minor (today Turkey) to Bari in Italy, as and on the feast of Pentecost.
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]
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 ...
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John Phillips/Getty Images Chuck Bass has found his real-life Blair Waldorf. Ed Westwick popped the question to his girlfriend, actress and model Amy Jackson, during a romantic ski trip in Gstaad ...
Blair Park is a neighborhood in the city of San Bernardino, California. [2] Like most neighborhoods in San Bernardino, the boundaries are informal; by common usage, Blair Park is bounded on the west by the 215 freeway; on the east by E street; on the south by the 210 freeway;and on the north by the Shandin Hills. Its main commercial streets are ...