Holy reliquaries, including relics of Saint Nicolas — who inspired Santa Claus — were confiscated by Canadian border services ...

MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. A fragment of relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, who passed away more than 1,700 years ago, will be transported from in the Italian city of Bari to the Christ the ...

Sacred artefacts along with their certificates of authenticity and provenance, will be returned to the Cathedral of Saint ...

St Nicholas's relics will stay in Moscow through to July 12, after which they will be transported to St Petersburg MOSCOW, May 22. /TASS/. Veneration of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, a fragment of ...

A Ukrainian postcard illustrating St. Nicholas’s gift-giving ... visit the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Italy, where Nicholas’ relics reside inside an large tomb reinforced by concrete.

that of St. Nicholas of Bari and Myra, because he was given the first name last, since his his relics are reposed there, and the second name comes from his Bishopric see in Asia Minor. he is our ...

He is also called Nicholas of Bari because his relics were taken to Bari by Italian merchants in 1087. He is associated with Chirstmas because of the tradition that he had the custom of giving ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.