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5 days ago · The many miracles attributed to St. Nicholas, whose bones were said to give off a sweet-smelling oil, led to increasing devotion to the saint, and his legend grew with his popularity.
4 days ago · In the pages of history St. Nicholas doesn’t often come up as a figure of hilarity, and indeed he is often painted quite the opposite as a reaction to the jolly and saccharine figure of Santa Claus.
1 day ago · Aside from his reputation as the real Santa Claus, and the fact that he was an incredible miracle worker from birth, Saint Nicholas is also remembered for defending the faith against heresy during the First Council of Nicaea. Let’s just say it got physical.
2 days ago · 4. Dog. “Dog” comes from Old English docga, a very rare word later used in Middle English to depict a specific, strong breed – the mastiff. In Old English, hund was the general Germanic word ...
3 days ago · Tsar Nicholas looked for his model of the truly Orthodox autocrat to the Muscovite Tsars of the seventeenth century, and especially to Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich. This choice tells us much about Nicholas himself.
3 days ago · While both name and attire—a version of the traditional dress of bishop—of Santa Claus reveal his Christian roots, and his role of querying children about their past behaviour replicates that of St. Nicholas, he is seen as a secular figure.
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4 days ago · History of the word Bible. The word Bible is indirectly derived from the Greek word for papyrus. Papyrus was used to make a parchment for writing which was rolled into scrolls. The Ancient Egyptians had used papyrus for writing on for thousands of years. In fact the English word 'paper' comes from the word 'papyrus', but in Greek it was called ...
