{"id":21785,"date":"2024-12-06T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/st-nicholas-of-myra\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T08:44:08","slug":"st-nicholas-of-myra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/st-nicholas-of-myra\/","title":{"rendered":"San Nicola di Mira"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>[ad_1] St. Nicholas of Myra Feast date: Dec 06 On\u00c2\u00a0Dec. 6, the faithful commemorate a bishop in the early church who was known for generosity and love of children. Born in Lycia in Asia Minor around the late third or fourth century, St. Nicholas of Myra is more than just the inspiration for the modern day Santa. 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As a young man he is said to have made a pilgrimage to Palestine and Egypt in order to study in the school\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-21785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71259,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/5-things-to-know-and-share-about-st-nicholas-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":21785,"position":0},"title":"5 things to know and share about St. Nicholas","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Febbraio 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"St. Nicholas, by Jaroslav \u010cerm\u00e1k (1831-1878). \/ Credit: Galerie Art Praha via Wikimedia (public domain) Vatican City, Dec 6, 2025 \/ 04:00 am (CNA). St. Nicholas, whose feast day is celebrated on Dec. 6, is known to possibly be the real-life inspiration for the beloved Christmas character of Santa Claus.Not a lot is known about the historical Nicholas, who was bishop of Myra, a Greek city in modern-day Turkey, during the fourth century A.D. But there are many stories and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christian News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CNA_LOGOredblk-9.png?fit=1200%2C335&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CNA_LOGOredblk-9.png?fit=1200%2C335&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CNA_LOGOredblk-9.png?fit=1200%2C335&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CNA_LOGOredblk-9.png?fit=1200%2C335&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CNA_LOGOredblk-9.png?fit=1200%2C335&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22609,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/santas-tomb-coffin-of-st-nicholas-may-have-been-found-but-theres-a-catch\/","url_meta":{"origin":21785,"position":1},"title":"Santa\u2019s tomb? 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