TASS/. The traditional Feast of St. Nicholas under the Orthodox calendar was celebrated in the Italian city of Bari (Apulia), where relics of St. Nicholas are kept and the Orthodox parish of the ...

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Orthodox Church in Thailand, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All ...

Until now, the bones of St Nicholas were believed to be in Bari, Italy. It had been thought they were taken by Italian merchants in 1087 when Myra - at the time a Greek town - was invaded by the ...

"We're divided by the calendar reform but still are not divided by the date on which we venerate St Nicholas and the delivery of the relics from Myra in Lycia to Bari," he said Kirill I recalled ...

perhaps most famously between 1690 and 1693 when the interiors were decorated with fresco paintings of scenes depicting San Nicolás de Bari (Saint Nicholas) and San Pedro Mártir (Saint Peter ...

There are several Saint Nicholases, two of whom, found in many a Saints' dictionary is actually the same Saint, that of St. Nicholas of Bari and Myra, because he was given the first name last ...

26.8 x 13.3 cm. (10.6 x 5.2 in.) ...

22.4 x 27.4 cm. (8.8 x 10.8 in.) ...

He also is the patron saint of sailors. In 1807, Italian sailors took the remains of St. Nicholas from Myra to the seaport of Bari, on the southeast coast of the boot of Italy. They built a church ...

This Saint Nicholas statue is situated in Bari, near a plaque with Putin's signature. The statue was donated in 2003, long before significant events like the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 ...