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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.
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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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.
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]
Just two months prior, Tatiana, 43, and Nikolaos, 54, put on a united front at the thanksgiving service for King Constantine II, Nikolaos’ father and the last king of Greece who ruled until the ...
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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 ...