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The tomb of Saint Nicholas is a slab effigy in low relief in County Kilkenny, Ireland, popularly believed to be the tombstone of Saint Nicholas of Myra. [1] [2] Located in the medieval lost town of Newtown Jerpoint, [1] the grave is more likely that of a Cistercian priest from Jerpoint Abbey east of the town.
The crypt, with 26 columns sporting capitals in Byzantine and Romanesque style, houses the relics of Saint Nicholas. The Tomb of Saint Nicholas (2023). In the church there is a 16th-century Renaissance tomb of Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland, made from marble.
St Nicholas' is a Church of England parish church at Moreton, Dorset, England. It is known for its thirteen windows, engraved by the poet and artist Sir Laurence Whistler. [1] T. E. Lawrence was buried in the separate churchyard.
Nicholas, also known as Niklaus or Nicola, was a real-life Christian saint born, not in the frozen north, but in Myra, in what is today Turkey. Saint Nick, it is believed, was born around 270 C.E ...
Garðar Cathedral (Danish: Garðar Domkirke), known formally as the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, was a Roman Catholic cathedral church located in Garðar, situated in Igaliku, Greenland. It was the first cathedral erected in the Americas, and is among the oldest surviving example of European architecture in the Americas. [ 1 ]
The Church of St. Nicholas is a Neoclassical style rotunda in the Askold's Grave park of Kyiv, Ukraine.. This former Russian Orthodox church was designed in 1809 by the Moscow-born architect Andrey Melensky and was underwritten by Samuil Meshcheryakov, a merchant from Voronezh.
St. Nicholas Avenue and St. Nicholas Terrace, streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, an area originally settled by Dutch farmers, were named for St. Nicholas of Myra. The name later was taken for nearby St. Nicholas Park, located at the intersection of St. Nicholas Avenue and 127th Street. [113]
St. Nicholas was named a saint by the church on Dec. 6, which is the same day he is believed to have died in 343 A.D. The day is celebrated as a feast day.