This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

The history of the spiritual center began with the miraculous appearance of the Icon of the Mother of God. A legend has it that this happened in 1470.

Cancel anytime. Clark Porter, a convert to the Greek Orthodox church, greets members of the congregation at the door at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in the Central West End on Sunday ...

St. John died quite suddenly in 1966 in a small, upstairs room of a building behind St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral ... One prominent icon, with handwritten petitions stuffed into the ...

(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) The Orthodox icon Virgin of Kazan is projected ... for the holidays near the Naval Cathedral of Saint Nicholas on Orthodox Christmas Eve in Kronstadt on the outskirts of St.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Olyphant celebrated its 120th anniversary on Dec. 6. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by His Eminence, the Most Rev. Archbishop Mark Maymon of the Diocese of ...

She said that after an earthquake in the region in 529, archeologists believe the Church of St. Nicholas, long a popular pilgrimage site, especially for Russian Orthodox Christians, “may have ...

The Byzantine church built over the foundation was a place of worship for Orthodox Christians between the 5th and 12th centuries and was surrounded by statues of St Nicholas. It was also added to ...

The Feast of St. Nicholas, fondly referred to by many across the region as St. Nick's Day, takes place annually Dec. 6. Though the holiday involves stockings and small gifts, it is separate from ...

An icon of St. Nicholas painted in 1294 for a Russian Orthodox church on Lipno Island in northwestern Russia. Public Domain 4. He is the patron saint of unmarried people, fishermen, pawnbrokers ...