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Posts in The Copybook for ‘The Feast of St Nicholas of Myra’

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St Nicholas and the Luckless Sailor Clay Lane

After surviving a terrible storm, a crew-member on St Nicholas’s ship met with a tragic accident.

St Nicholas (d. 343), who became Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor, is known as the patron of seamen, and it is a pity that a sea-faring nation such as Britain should have largely forgotten about him. Here is one of many miracles attributed to him.

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St Nicholas of the Cats Clay Lane

A very unusual monastery with some very unusual protectors.

When the Empress Helen founded the monastery of St Nicholas in the 4th century, she had no idea that this pleasant corner of Cyprus was plagued by venomous snakes.

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