The popularity of St. Nicholas in the World is also testified by the presence of thousands of churches dedicated to him. Here are some of the churches of St. Nicholas Church of St. Nicholas of Weavers – Moscow The Church of St. Nicholas in Khamovniki, also known as the Weavers’ Church, is a valuable example...
The most numerous traces of the cult of St. Nicholas date back to the sixth century. Among the most important, the Vita Nicolai Sionitae, composed in 564, tells the story of a monk of Sion, a monastery not far from Mira. In the text, rich in information on Christianity in Lycia, is given certain testimony...
Saint Nicholas was venerated in different ways on the European continent. The Orthodox churches saw in him a defender of the faith and depicted him next to the great fathers of the Eastern Church. In the southern West, Nicholas was the saint of charity and attention to the needy. In central-northern Europe he was considered...
The first news of the cult of St. Nicholas in Russia can be found in a text written in 1110 which refers to a church of St. Nicholas built in the year 882. A further testimony comes from the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev, built in 1037 in which there was an image of...
The body of St. Nicholas remained at Mira about 750 years while his cult spread universally. The translation took place in 1087 by a group of sailors and merchants from Bari who broke the tomb of the saint and stole his body to take him to the port of Apulia. This event caused great enthusiasm...
The transfer of Saint Nicholas to Bari had great repercussions in Russia, as attested by numerous contemporary manuscripts and the fact that the feast dedicated to it is already attested in a mesjaceslov (calendar of the feasts of the saints) of 1144. The pilgrimages from Russia to Bari, which began at least in the second...
