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Saint Nicholas of Myra [a] (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), [3] [4] [b] also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.
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 ...
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]
Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra. Saint Nicholas or Saint Nick may also refer to: Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas, a western folk legend inspired by the saint; Sinterklaas or Sint-Nicolaas, the Dutch variant of the folk legend; Saint Nicholas, a gift-bringing figure in Europe; Saint Nicholas Day, the feast day of ...
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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 ...
Myra Lewis Williams, also known as Myra Gale Brown, was the third wife of late rock ’n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and — more infamously — his 13-year-old cousin at the time they got married.
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 ...