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Who was Saint Nicholas?

St. Nicholas is represented on icons very often, probably most frequent than any other saint. The ecclesiastical history records two people with the name “Nicholas”. Both of them are reputed to be holy: Bishop Nicholas of Myra (lived in the 4 th century) and Nicholas of Sion, Bishop of Pinara (died 564)....

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Black Madonnas and Pilgrimages: Their origins in Paganism

We know that with Stonehenge sun, moon and the stars had been considered. As well the construction of cathedrales in the Middle Ages oriented itself from the constellation of stars. The above-mentioned suggests that the cathedral is – similar to the stars – something everlasting and perpetual, object of earthly mysticism, symbolized by Stella Maris, the Star of the Sea, the Black Madonna. ...

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