Happy St. Nicholas Day!

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And a blessed St Nicholas day to you. Thanks for the smile the image brought. I had forgotten the story of St Nicholas punching Arius at Nicea. 😉
 
Thanks for the reminder and the graphic is FUNNY!!!

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Love this one!! Thanks for reminding us about St. Nicholas and his value to us in the Catholic Church.😃
 
Usige said:
And a blessed St Nicholas day to you. Thanks for the smile the image brought. I had forgotten the story of St Nicholas punching Arius at Nicea. 😉
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I didn’t know about that, I know there is Church in Bari named for him. The old Italians say that sailors took the Saints bones and bought them back to Italy. What can someone tell us about the punch? I never heard that story.
 
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I didn’t know about that, I know there is Church in Bari named for him. The old Italians say that sailors took the Saints bones and bought them back to Italy. What can someone tell us about the punch? I never heard that story.
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The story as I remember it goes something like this.

During the council of Nicea in 325 Arius was called to explain his view that Jesus was a create being. During his explanation St Nicholas couldn’t stand it so he suddenly stood up and punch or slapped Arius. Emperor Constantine and the other bishops stripped him of his personal copy of the Gospels and his palladium. The story then goes that St Nicholas was then put in a cell for his attack of Arius. That night Christ and the Virgin Mary appeared to him in the cell. Christ handed him a copy of the gospels and St Mary vested him with the palladium restoring the symbols of his episcopacy.
 
:thumbsup:Thank you, I have to tell my brothers girlfriend about that. She is Nicole and there is a Nicholas and Nicolette in the family too. That is a great story, being half Barese I can say I understand how it could happen:p , must be something catching, as I get like a fizzle stick when a Truth is being challenged.
 
For the story of St. Nicholas punching Arius, as well as other information about St. Nicholas,
click on My Kind of Santa Claus

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