Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

Saint Nicholas, born in Southern Turkey in the third century AD, was elected Bishop of Myra, and during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian was exiled and imprisoned. The Bishop was renowned ...

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The Church of St. Nicholas in Antalya, Türkiye has long been believed to be the burial site of Saint Nicholas, but recent excavations have finally unearthed a sarcophagus which archaeologists ...

And there it is, along with Hosius and Cecilian and Donnus and Vincentius and Menophantes — the other name we associate with Christmas: Saint ... Nicholas was reinstated as Bishop of Myra.

and the fourth-century bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra. But the poem in the newspaper painted a different picture: it gave Santa eight reindeer, and even named them; it described a Santa who could ...

Hearken to the true story of Nicholas, the Saint of Sailors who became a bishop of Myra. Nicholas was born to a wealthy wheat merchant at Patara in late-second century Turkey, around 300AD.

Gradually, the religious image was fully transformed into a secular icon. St. Nicholas of Myra was represented in medieval art holding four loaves of bread as a symbol of his generosity.

Scientists at a university in Liverpool unveiled what they say is the most realistic portrait ever created of St. Nicholas of Myra, the popular 4th century bishop best known as the inspiration for ...

After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas ... Seljuks, Nicholas’ bones were purportedly moved by merchants from Myra to Bari in ...

The guardians were horrified. St. Nicholas’ body had lain under the floor of their church for 700 years. It defined the city of Myra. They weren’t about to give it up. So the thieves decided ...