St. Nicholas was a real catch ... They were heading there on their way home to Italy. The Bari sailors had been a little anxious about stealing the corpse. He was a holy man, after all, and ...

St. Nicholas, called by the people Nicholas the ... In 1087, the relics of the Saint were moved from Myra in Lycia (now Turkey) to Bari, Italy. Since then, thousands of pilgrims from all over ...

Until now, the bones of St Nicholas were believed to be in Bari, Italy. It had been thought they were taken by Italian merchants in 1087 when Myra - at the time a Greek town - was invaded by the ...

The belief that St. Nicholas was buried at the church site ... some of which are claimed to be at churches in Bari and Venice, Italy, among other places. Professor Ebru Fatma Fındık, the leader ...

Relics of St Nicholas, who died in modern-day Turkey, have been kept in the crypt of a church in Bari in Italy since the 11th Century. But the popularity of the saint, and the associations with ...

where they remained in a church in Bari until the Normans were forced out of Italy by the Genoese. St Nicholas's remains were taken to Fraxinet, a Moorish town near Nice, where they were entrusted ...

perhaps most famously between 1690 and 1693 when the interiors were decorated with fresco paintings of scenes depicting San Nicolás de Bari (Saint Nicholas) and San Pedro Mártir (Saint Peter ...