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The crypt of St. Nicholas in Bari The city of Bari is located in southern Italy, right at the "Achilles Heel" so to speak. Th...

The skull of Skeleton 180, with sword damage The monks of Lewes Priory ran a Hospital of St. Nicholas in the Middle Ages, now long gone...

Yesterday's post on St. Menas and the flasks of water leads to a discussion of oleum martyris , literally "oil of martyrs" bu...

15th century woodcut of Nicholas In the introduction to Arian Christianity I mentioned how discussion at the Council of Nicaea in 325 b...

In the theological free-for-all of the first few centuries after Jesus of Nazareth, different theories as to the nature of God and the divin...