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    The tomb of Saint Nicholas is a slab effigy in low relief of an early 4th-century ecclesiastic popularly associated with Saint Nicholas of Myra in County...
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    Life of Saint Nicholas of Sion, written around 250 years after Nicholas of Myra's death, briefly mentions Nicholas of Sion visiting Nicholas's tomb to pay...
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    The Pontifical Basilica of Saint Nicholas (Basilica of Saint Nicholas) is a church in Bari, southern Italy, that holds wide religious significance throughout...
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    Saint Nicholas Day, also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, observed on 6 December (and/or its eve on 5 December) in Western Christian countries, and...
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    Demre (category Districts of Antalya Province)
    Christian pilgrims who visit the tomb of Saint Nicholas. Demre is on the coast of the Teke peninsula, west of the bay of Antalya, with the Taurus Mountains...
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    Gemiler Island (category Uninhabited islands of Turkey)
    along with a variety of associated buildings. Archaeologists believe it was the location of the original tomb of Saint Nicholas. The original Turkish...
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    Manna (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
    "the Manna of Saint Nicholas". The liquid gradually seeps out of the tomb, but it is unclear whether it originates from the body within the tomb, or from...
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    The Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari is a religious and folk holiday among the East Slavs and, to a lesser extent, the South...
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    Basilica (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    basilica church, while at Myra the Basilica of St Nicholas was constructed at the tomb of Saint Nicholas. At Constantinople the earliest basilica churches...
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    from Saint Helena in 1840, or retour des cendres, at the initiative of King Louis Philippe I and his minister Adolphe Thiers. While the tomb's planning...
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    Nicholas of Flüe (German: Niklaus von Flüe; 1417 – 21 March 1487) was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland. He is sometimes...
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    The tomb of Alexander the Great is attested in several historical accounts, but its current exact location remains an enduring mystery. Following Alexander's...
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    intercession of Saint James. He travelled on a pilgrimage to Campostella and to the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari to visit the tomb of Saint Nicholas. He also...
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    city visitors making pilgrimage to Saint Nicholas. The earliest church of St. Nicholas at Myra was built at the time of Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire...
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  • Humayd ibn Ma'yuf al-Hajuri (category Admirals of the Abbasid Caliphate)
    city of Rhodes resisted his attempts to capture it. On his return trip, he landed at Myra, where he tried to destroy the tomb of Saint Nicholas. A storm...
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    Thecla (redirect from Saint Thecla)
    Maaloula, Syria, a Greek Orthodox nunnery, the Convent of Saint Thecla, was built near her cave tomb, reached by steps in the mountainside, a pilgrimage...
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    site of Saint Peter, chief among Jesus's apostles and also the first Bishop of Rome (Pope). Saint Peter's tomb is directly below the high altar of the...
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    however, is the capstone of a funerary urn (probably that of Hadrian), which made its way to Saint Peter's Basilica, covered the tomb of Otto II and later was...
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    Dagobert I commissioned the goldsmith Saint Eligius to make a work in gold and gems for the tomb-shrine. The bishop Gregory of Tours wrote and distributed an...
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    Susanna (disciple) (category Christian saints from the New Testament)
    the female disciples of Jesus who came to his tomb to anoint his body with myrrh oils but found the tomb empty. Although Susanna is not included in the...
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    proven true, and many details of the 5th-century Acts of Saint Agnes have been challenged. A church was built over her tomb, and her relics venerated. Agnes...
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    an important part of its shape and of the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a part of the imperial tomb - the tombs are on the ground floor. It is a lightning...
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    in Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman's novel, Fabiola, where she is seen mourning for Agnes right after the latter's martyrdom. Calendar of saints January 23 (Eastern...
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    are the tomb of Saint Nimatullah and the remains of Blessed Stefano Nehmè. kfifan-monastery.com Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine "Saint Nimatullah...
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    Camii), originally known as the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas and later as the Saint Sophia (Ayasofya) Mosque of Mağusa, is the largest medieval building...
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    or Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Chapel (Italian: Cappella Mellini, Cappella di San Niccolò da Tolentino) is the third chapel on the left-hand side of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Nicolas Flamel
    Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Erik Satie was intrigued by Flamel, and Albert Pike refers to Nicholas Flamel in his book Morals and Dogma of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry...
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    dedicated to the Holy Archangels (where Dušan's tomb lied), and the second one is dedicated to St. Nicholas, both built in the Rascian architectural style...
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    original tomb of Philip during excavations in ancient Hierapolis, close to the modern Turkish city of Denizli. The 1st-century tomb, found to be empty of relics...
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    crucifixion of Jesus; Three Marys at the tomb of Jesus on Easter Sunday; Three daughters of Saint Anne, all named Mary. The presence of a group of female disciples...
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