Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra is one of the most popular and beloved Christian saints among the people. His name is associated with many miracles that he performed during his life and after death. Thousands of believers come to worship the relics of St. Nicholas.
Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra
Saint Nicholas the Miracle Worker was bishop of the cities of Mira in Lycia. According to the Life of the Saints, he was born into a wealthy Christian family in 260 in the Lycian city of Patras, and died in 343 in the city of Mira, where he lived most of his life. St. Nicholas became famous during his lifetime. Thrown into prison during the Diocletian persecution, he gave a bag of gold as a dowry to three beggars who were forced to earn a living by selling their own bodies. After that, they got married and became respectable Christians.
In the history of Christianity, Nikolai Ugodnik entered under the name of Nicholas of Myra, that is, from the Lycian World.
Nicholas also brought back to life the three little boys killed during the famine by the innkeeper. And when he made a pilgrimage to Palestine, during a terrible storm he saved the ship from death.
Nicholas of Myra lived to a very old age and after his death was buried in the Lycian Worlds. Literally right away, the relics of St. Nicholas began to flow. However, to worship him as a saint began only after 800 years.
