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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...
Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), 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.
17th-century icon of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra, from Myra in Asia Minor to Bari, Italy in 1087 (Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland).. Among the most famous translations is that of Saint Benedict of Nursia, author of the "Regula S. Benedicti", from Cassino to Fleury, which Adrevald memorialized.
Articles associated with Saint Nicholas (270-343), an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (Ancient Greek: Μύρα; modern-day Demre, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.