Nicholas the Wonderworker Biography

The folk traditions of the celebration of the Day of Memory of Nikolai Saoys when the memory of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is celebrated by Saint Nicholas in the Orthodox Church Calendar is dedicated to more than one holiday. The people called these two holidays Nicholas Winter and Nicholas Autumn. All these holidays are non -transit, that is, their dates are fixed. What is helped by Nikolai the Wonderworker of St.

Nicholas called the miracle worker. Such saints are especially revered for the miracles that occur in prayers to them. Since ancient times, Nikolai the Wonderworker was revered as an imminent assistant to sailors and other traveling, merchants, unjustly convicted and children. In Western People’s Christianity, his image was connected with the image of a folklore character-the “Christmas grandfather”-and was transformed into Santa Claus Santa Claus in translation from English.

Santa Claus gives children gifts for Christmas. Life is the biography of Nikolai Wonderworker Nikolai the Miner was born in the year in the town of Patara, which was located in the field of Lycia in Asia Minor and was a Greek colony. The parents of the future archbishop were very wealthy people, but at the same time they believed in Christ and actively helped the poor.

As Life says, the saint has completely devoted himself to Vera since childhood, spent a lot of time in the temple. Having matured, he became a reader, and then a priest in the church, where his uncle, Bishop Nikolai Patarsky, served as the abbot. After the death of his parents, Nikolai the Wonderworker distributed all his inheritance to the poor and continued church ministry. In the years when the attitude of the Roman emperors towards Christians became more tolerant, but the persecution nevertheless continued, he ascended the Bishop's throne in the world.

Now this town is called Demre, it is located in the province of Antalya in Turkey. People were very loved by the new archbishop: he was kind, meek, fair, responsive - not a single request to him remained unanswered. With all this, Nikolai was remembered by contemporaries as an implacable fighter with paganism - destroyed idols and temple, and the defender of Christianity - denounced heretics.

Even during his lifetime, the saint became famous for many miracles. The city saved the world from terrible hunger - with its hot prayer to Christ. He prayed and helped the drowning sailors on the vessels, withdrew from imprisonment in prisons unrighteously convicted. Nikolai Ugodnik lived to a very old age and died about about years - the exact date is unknown. The relics of St. Nicholas St.

Nicholas the Wonderworker went to the Lord in years - the exact date is unknown. His relics were imperishable. At first they rested in the City Church of the city of Lycian, where he served as an archbishop. They were the myrrh -shaped, and the Miro healed believers from different ailments. See also: The abductors of the relics of St. Nicholas in the year part of the relics of the saint were transferred to the Italian city of Bari, to the church of St.

Stefan. A year after saving relics there, a basilica was erected in the name of St. Nicholas. Now everyone can pray at the relics of the saint - the ark with them to this day is stored in this basil. A few years later, the remaining part of the relics was transported to Venice, and a small particle remained in the worlds. In honor of the transfer of the relics of Nicholas the saints, a special holiday is established, which in the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates on May 22 according to a new style.

The first icons of the saint appeared in our country no later than the middle of the XI century - for example, the frescoes of St. Sophia in Kyiv. Many temples and monasteries are dedicated to Nikolai the saint in Rus'. In the name of Him, St. Patriarch Fotius baptized in the year of the Kyiv Prince of Askold-the very first Russian prince-Christian. Over the grave of Askold in Kyiv, the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Olga built the first church of St.

Nicholas on the Russian land. In many Russian cities, the main cathedrals were called the name of the Lycian Archbishop. In addition, Nikolskaya is named one of the main towers of the metropolitan Kremlin. There are two main iconographic types of St. Nicholas - Rostov and Belt. One of the classic examples of the Rostov icon is a fresco from the Mikhailovsky Golden -Fire Monastery in Kyiv, written at the beginning of the 12th century.

Now it is stored in the Tretyakov Gallery. On this fresco, the saint is depicted in growth, with a blessing hand and open gospel in the left hand. The icons of a waist iconographic type depict a saint with a closed gospel on the left hand. The oldest icon of this type in the monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai dates back to the XI century. In Rus', the earliest of the preserved this image dates back to the end of the XII century.

Now this icon can be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery. The icon painters also created the living icons of Nicholas the sainty, that is, depicting different scenes from the life of the saint - sometimes up to twenty different plots. The oldest of these icons in Rus' is the Novgorod from the graveyard of Lyubuni XIV century and Kolomenskaya is now stored in the Tretyakov Gallery. The troparia to St.

Nicholas the Wonderworker Glass 4 The rule of faith and the image of meekness, the abstinence of the teacher of the reality of your herd, even the truth: for this, for the sake of sake, thou, with humility is a high, richer poverty. The Father of the Holy Principles of Nicholas, pray of Christ God to save our souls.Translation: the rule of faith, a model of meekness, abstinence by the teacher showed you the life of your flock.

And therefore, with humility, you gained greatness, poverty - wealth: the Father of the Holy Principles of Nicholas, praying to Christ God for the salvation of our souls. Kondak Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Glass 3 in Mirakh, Holy, the Holy Priest seemed to be: Christ, Rev., Having fulfilled the Gospel, laid down your soul about your people, and saved the innocent from death; For the sake of this, thou, as if the great Taant of God's grace.

Translation: In the worlds, you, a saint, appeared to be the accomplice of the priests: Having fulfilled the gospel teaching of Christ, you put, the reverend, who saved your soul for your people and innocent people. Therefore, he was consecrated, as a great minister of the sacraments of God's grace. Prayers to Nicholas the Wonderworker Prayer to the first to Nicholas the sainty of O, all upbringed by Nicholas, pleasing to the pre -person of the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in the mournful assistant assistance!

Help me a sinful and dull in the present of life, begged the Lord God to give me the abandonment of all my sins, who sinned from my youth, in my whole life, deed, in a word, thought and all my feelings; And in the outcome of my soul, help the gentlemen of God, all the creatures of the prudent, save me with air ordeals and eternal torment: yes, I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your gracious representation, now and ever and forever centuries.

The second prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for all the vegetable, great miraculous, the saint of Christ, Father Nicholas! We pray, wake the hope of all Christians, the faithful protector, the stinging feeder, crying cheerfulness, the sore doctor, by the sea of ​​floating the ruler, the wretched and the Syna feeder and the fast assistant and the patron, let us live the living and may we be able to see the glory of the chosen Gods in Heaven, and with them unceasbly sung one in the triumph The fragmented God forever and ever.

The third prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for all the Vo -Vyvoy and Honest bishop, the great miraculous, the Holy of Christ, the Father of Nicholas, the Human of God and the faithful slave, the husband of desires, the chosen vessel, the strong pillar of the church, the luminous of the Most Holy, the star of the whole universe: you are the righteous, as if the dating is permeated.

His Lord’s courtes, alive in the worlds, elaborated into the world, and the worldly flowing grace of God exuding. Your procession of the Blessed Father, the sea is lit, you are alive, the multi -sized relics of the walking in the city of the Barsky, praise the name of the Lord from east to west. About the prey and anticipated miraculous, a quick assistant, warm intercessor, the shepherd, a pre -vile, saving a verbal herd from all troubles, we glorify you, and we call you, as the hope of all Christians, a source of miracles, the protector of the faithful, wise teacher, the hidden feeder, the bunny robe, the sick doctor, and the sea of ​​floating.

The manager, captives of the freedizer, widows and orphans of the nutrient and the intercessor, chastity of the Guardian, babies of a meek punitor, old fortifications, post -workers of the mentor, working, beggar and wretched abundant wealth. Hear us praying to you, and resorting to your blood, you will have a presentation for us to the lead, and comply with your God -wise prayers, all useful to the salvation of our souls and bodies: save this holy abode or this temple, all the city and all, and every Christian country, and people living from all the bitterness of your help, there can be a lot of vems, and there can be a lot of vems.

The prayer of the righteous hasteing into the good: you are righteous, according to Mary's Blessed Virgin, the representative to the All -Military God of the Imam, and to yours, the reproaches of the Father, the warm petition and intercession, we will humbly flow: you follow us as a cheerful and good shepherd, from all kinds of enemies, destruction, coward, smoothness, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire.

The sword, the invasion of foreigners, and in all troubles and sorrows, give us a hand of help, and open the doors of the mercy of God, the unworthy of the Esma is the height of the heavenly, from the many unworthy of our unworthy, are connected by the bonds of the sinful, and the will of our creator is not the preservation of his commandments. We bow the knee in the same way to be crushed and humble of our heart to our zizhoder, and we ask for your paternal intercession to him: help us pleasing God, let us not die with our lawlessness, save us from all evil, and from all things that are resistant, manage our mind and strengthen our heart, in it, in it, neither wounds, neither wounds, neither wounds, nor wounds.

With a murmur, neither by a mor, nor with an anger you will give me a mi in the age of this, and will save me with a shuyago standing, it will prompt the desanago with all the saints. The fourth prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for our good to the shepherd and God -wise mentoring, the saint of Christ Nicholas! Hear us sinners praying to you and calling for your speed to help you; See us weak, mocking the captured, all deprived and mind from cowardice of the darkened; Slinking, sung by God, do not leave us in a sinful captivity of being, let us not be joyful with our enemy and do not die in our crafty deeds.Pray for us that our unworthy subordinates and the lord, you are with the non -embarrassment faces of the forefront: you are merciful to us our God in the current life and in the future belief, may not we will reward us in our deed and in the impatience of our hearts, but in its own goodness will reward us.

At your request, we will be a petition, we boast of your representation, we call your intercession to the aid, and you ask for your good image, we ask for help: deliver us, sung by Christ, from the evils of the passions and troubles growing on us, and for the sake of your holy prayers, we will not find us in the abyss of sinful and in the abyss of sinful Tina of our passions. Moly, the saint of Christ Nicholas, Christ of our God, may we give us a peaceful life and the abandonment of sins, but our souls are salvation and great mercy, now and ever and forever and ever.

Prayer to the fifth to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for the great intercessor, the bishop of God, Nicholas the Preblazhenna, the sunflower, seduced miracles, calling the imminent heater to be, and they also pretend and save them, and from the troubles of all sorts of Izimaeshi, from God this miracle and gifts of grace! Hear me unworthy, with faith, calling and a molebum to you bring singing; I propose to you for begging to Christ.

Oh, the notorious in the miracle, the saint is high! Prayer Sixth Saint Nikolai Miracle Worker O, allless Father Nicholas, the shepherd and the teacher of all faithful to your intercession, and with warm prayer of you calling you, and save the herd of the wolves of the destroying, orphanes from the invasion of the Latins of the Lukovy, who are growing on us. Frighten and save our country, and every country in Orthodoxy is existing, your holy prayers from a worldly rebellion, sword, invasion of foreigners, from interval and bloody battle.

And he also pardoned the tries of husbands in the dungeon of the gray -haired ones, and saved their kings of anger and visiting the Swordago, and have mercy and deliver Great, Malya and Bely of Rus' Orthodox people from the detrimental heresy of Latin. Like yes, your petition and help, with his own mercy and grace, Christ God, let him look with his merciful eye to people in ignorance, even the right -handed man, neither the shuitsy, not knowing, more likely, the seduction of the Latin cans of the Orthodox, but they will not disappear, but they won’t seduce the mind of their people.

From the faith of the fatherly, conscience, vain muddy and ignorantly adopted, may he wake up, will turn the will to store the holy faith of the Orthodox, may he remake wretched faith and humility of our fathers, who put the Orthodox for the faith, acceptance of the prayers of the warm saints of their saints, who shone us from charm and herein Latin, and having preserved us in Saint Orthodoxy will give us a terrible judge of the Desnago standing with all the saints.

What can be eaten on the day of memory of Nikolai Wonderworker on December 19 in a new style falls on Rozhdestvensky, or Filippov, as it is also called, post. On this day you can eat fish, but you can’t eat meat, eggs and other products of animal origin. The miracles of St. Nicholas Nikolai the Wonderworker are considered a patron, an intercessor and a prayer book for floating and, in general, everyone who travels.

For example, as the life of the saint says, in his youth, traveling from worlds to Alexandria, he resurrected a sailor who, during a fierce storm, broke from the mast of the ship and, falling onto the deck, broke to death. The word uttered on the all -nights on the holiday of St. Nicholas, December 18, we celebrate the day of the death of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker today.

What a strange combination of words: a holiday about death is usually, when death causes someone, we yearn and weeping about it; And when the saint dies, we rejoice about it. How is it possible? Perhaps this is only because when a sinner dies, the remaining people have a hard feeling that it was time for separation, at least temporary. No matter how strong our faith is, no matter how hope we have inspired, no matter how we are sure that the God of love will never finally separate from each other who love each other at least imperfect, earthly love-still there is sadness and longing for what we will not see for many years of the face, expression of the eyes that glow on us, we will not be touched by a dear person, we will not hear it, we will not hear it.

Voices, bringing to our hearts his affection and love, but our attitude towards the saint is not quite the same. Even those who were a contemporary of the saints already managed to realize that, living in fullness of heavenly life, the saint did not separate from the earth during life, and that when he rests with his body, he will still remain in this secret of the Church, uniting the living and the deceased into the united body, into one, the secret of the eternal, divine, defeated all life.With dying, the saints could say, as Paul said: I worked as a kind of good exploration, retained faith; Now the eternal reward is being prepared for me, now I am becoming sacrificing myself and this consciousness is not the head, but the consciousness of the heart, the living feeling of my heart about the fact that the saint cannot leave us from us just as Christ who has become invisible to us does not leave us, just as God invisible to us is not absent, this consciousness allows us to rejoice on the day, as the ancient Christians were born into the eternal, a person was born into the eternal.

life. He did not die - but was born, entered eternity, in full space, in fullness of life. He is awaiting a new victory of life, which we are all tea: the resurrection of the dead on the last day, when all the barriers of the separation will fall, and when we will rejoice not only about the victory of eternity, but that God and temporary returned to life - but in glory, new glory.

One of the ancient fathers of the Church, St. Irenaeus, says: the glory of God is a person who has become a man who has become a man so fame for God; Looking at them, we are amazed at what God can do over man. And so, we rejoice on the day of the death of the one who was a heavenly man on earth, and having entered eternity, became for us a representer and a prayer book, not excommunicated from us, remaining not only the same, becoming even closer, because we become close to each other as we become close, relatives, our living God, the god of love.

Our joy is so deep today! The Lord on earth shook, like a mature column, St. Nicholas. Now he triumphs with God, in heaven; And as he loved the earth and people, he knew how to regret, compassion, knew how to surround everyone and meet every amazing affectionate, thoughtful care, so now he prays for us all, carefully, thoughtfully. When you read his life, you are amazed that he was not only about spiritual; He took care of the provision of human need, about the most modest human needs.

He knew how to rejoice with those who rejoiced, he knew how to cry with crying, he knew how to console and support those who needed consolation and support.