Icon "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker" Mikolay-133 Onyx

Icon "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker"

Nicholas the Wonderworker of Mirlinsky was born in the city of Patara. From a young age he devoted himself to the Church and became the Archbishop of Myra. He was distinguished by modesty and simplicity; worked, fasted, prayed. He helped everyone - rich and poor, old and young, sick and healthy. Most importantly, he healed those suffering from sinful ulcers. In old age, he peacefully passed away to the Lord, but did not leave the entire Christian world under his care. They pray to him for raising children, for peace in the family, for deliverance from poverty and poverty, for the aversion of lustful thoughts or attacks, for pilgrims, sailors, travelers, for deliverance from bonds or from death, for the strengthening and purity of the Orthodox faith.  ;
St. was buried. Nicholas in the city of Myra Liyskikh, in the south of Asia Minor (hence his name - Mirlinsky). But in the last quarter of the 11th century, when the Muslim Turks often began to devastate these areas of Byzantium, a threat also loomed over the great common Christian shrine - the relics of St. Nicholas. And so merchants from Italy, among whom there were many Greeks, in 1087 decided to save St. power from imminent death. They even resorted to violence against the monks who protected the relics of the savior: having wrapped the relics fragrant with myrrh, the merchants carried them to their ship. Among the merchant thieves, almost all were from the city of Bari (in the southeast of Italy), where they brought the shrine. The relics were solemnly placed in the church of St. Stephen, and a year later a special temple was built for them, where they remain to this day, attracting many pilgrims. 
Celebration of the memory of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker takes place on December 6/19 and May 9/22 (transfer of relics to 1087).  

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