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	MSN Encarta - Saint Nicholas
		Nicholas, Saint (lived 4th century), Christian prelate, patron saint of Russia, traditionally associated with Christmas celebrations.
		Nicholas entered the nearby monastery of Sion and subsequently became archbishop of the metropolitan church in Myra, Lycia.
		Nicholas is the patron saint of children, scholars, virgins, sailors, and merchants, and in the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century) he was regarded by thieves as their patron saint as well.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574698/Saint_Nicholas.html (260 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Nicholas of Myra
		Bishop of Myra in Lycia; died 6 December, 345 or 352.
		Though he is one of the most popular saints in the Greek as well as the Latin Church, there is scarcely anything historically certain about him except that he was Bishop of Myra in the fourth century.
		The numerous miracles St. Nicholas is said to have wrought, both before and after his death, are outgrowths of a long tradition.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11063b.htm (351 words)

	Moveable Type (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Nicholas blessing three injured mariners, the scene is actually more sinister in nature depicting what has become known as the "Legend of the Pickled Boys." In the earliest extant literary source for this tale, a "miracle play" preserved in an 11th- or 12th-century manuscript from Hildesheim now in London (British Museum MS.
		The image of St. Nicholas and the Pickled Boys that is found in the Hatfield Library's praeces piae (Figure 1) is fairly typical of the scene, which becomes a very common depiction of St. Nicholas in Western Europe from the 12th century onwards.
		Nicholas is an elegant, elongated figure (arms altered) with flowing Gothic draperies, standing on a floor of alternating light and dark tiles rendered in precise linear perspective.
	dewey.willamette.edu:8082 /perl/move/full.pl?art_number=82&i=111 (1557 words)

	AllRefer.com - Saint Nicholas (Saints Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Saint Nicholas patron of children and sailors, of Greece, Sicily, and Russia, and of many other places and persons.
		Little is known of him, but he is traditionally identified as a 4th-century bishop of Myra in Asia Minor.
		His relics were stolen from Myra in the Middle Ages and taken to Bari, Italy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NichlsSt.html (279 words)

	Saint Nicholas ::: Origin of Santa
		Nicholas in 1773, not to honor Bishop Nicholas, but rather as a non-British symbol to counter the English St. George societies.
		This St. Nicholas society was similar to the Sons of St. Tammany in Philadelphia.
		Nicholas was shown in a gift-giving role with children's treats in stockings hanging at a fireplace.
	www.stnicholascenter.org /Brix?pageID=35 (1338 words)

	Saint Nicholas of Myra
		Nicholas is the national saint of Russia and Greece and churches named after him number in the thousands - more than 400 in Great Britain alone.
		He is the patron saint of judges, murderers, pawnbrokers, thieves, merchants, paupers, scholars, sailors, bakers, travelers, maidens and poor children.
		Saint Nicholas was born in the Middle East in the fourth century.
	frpat.com /nicholas.htm (556 words)

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		Nicholas (in dutch called "Sinterklaas" or "Sint Nicolaas"; in german called "Sankt Nikolaus") was the bishop of Myra, which is now situated in Turkey.
		A few weeks before his feastday St. Nicholas comes to Holland (and Belgium) on his steamer with all his "pieten" and the presents which they prepared in Spain during the year.
		During the night St. Nicholas visits all the houses by travelling over the roofs on his horse, traditionally a white/grey (called "Schimmel" in dutch), and "zwarte piet" enters the houses through the chimney to put little presents in the children's shoes.
	www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk /~erik/sint/sint.html (976 words)

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		Nicholas, Archbishop Of Myra in Lycia and Icon of Nicholas
		The Saint Nicholas of Myra page in France is a site worth exploring
		The Joy of Christmas cassette by Saint Michael's Byzantine Catholic
	www.iarelative.com /xmas/index.html (783 words)

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