Directory of Saint Nicholas of Myra Resources

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• A Saint a Day: St. Nicholas

  http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/kids/saints/1206.asp
  Stories about St. Nicholas, for children.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Nicholas of Myra

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11063b.htm
  Fourth-century bishop in Asia Minor. Also called St. Nicholas of Bari because his relics were translated there in the eleventh century.

• Catholic Online: St. Nicholas

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=371
  Fairly long article about the bishop of Myra.

• CatholicSaints.Info: Nicholas of Myra

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-nicholas-of-myra/
  Illustrated profile.

• Domestic-Church.com: Saint Nicholas

  http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19981101/SAINTS/nicholas.htm
  Three accounts of the story of St. Nicholas: for infants through children age 8, children 8-14, and age 14 through adults. By Catherine Fournier.

• Lives of Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/NICHOLAS.htm
  Bishop, Confessor. From the book "Lives of Saints", published by John J. Crawley.

• Lives of the Saints: St. Nicholas

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STNICH.htm
  Confessor, Archbishop of Myra. From Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.

• Nicholas, St

  http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/NEW_NUM/NICHOLAS_ST.html
  Article on the legend and cultus of this popular saint, from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Some scanner errors.

• Orthodox America: St. Nicholas

  http://www.roca.org/OA/5/5m.htm
  A detailed history of the saint, the meaning of the name Santa Claus, and the origin of the Christmas stocking.

• Symeon Metaphrastes

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/REALNICK.htm
  Excerpts from "The Life of Nicholas" by Symeon Metaphrastes.

• The Life of Saint Nicholas the Bishop

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GL-vol2-nicholas.asp
  From "The Golden Legend," by Jacobus de Voragine. William Caxton translation, slightly modernized.

• The Saint Nicholas Center

  http://www.stnicholascenter.org/
  Discover the truth of Santa Claus begins with Nicholas.

• The Translation of Saint Nicholas

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nicholas-bari.asp
  An anonymous Greek account of the removal of the saint's body from Myra to Bari. Translated from a thirteenth-century manuscript.

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