On returning some years later he was almost immediately ordained Bishop of Myra. He was imprisoned ... He is also called Nicholas of Bari because his relics were taken to Bari by Italian merchants ...
There was, indeed, a real Christian bishop who used the same moniker: Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas ... merchants from Bari removed the major bones of Nicholas from the sarcophagus ...
Some believe that Saint Nicholas was buried in Myra, but others believe he is buried at a church in Gemile, Türkiye or the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Italy. Historians also believe that some ...
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 ...
"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 ...