{"id":24159,"date":"2008-12-06T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/saint-nicholas\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:41:18","slug":"saint-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/saint-nicholas\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Nicholas%20giving%20dowry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" alt=\"St Nicholas giving dowry.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Nicholas%20giving%20dowry-thumb-275x274.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>The Lord led the just in the right path; and showed him the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>Let us pray with the Church:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>O God, Who did adorn the holy Bishop Nicholas with innumerable miracles; grant, we beseech Thee, that by his merits and prayers we may be delivered from the flames of hell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saint Nicholas is now known as Santa Claus the hagiography tells us that he was a man of great compassion for the weak and poor. He attended to his calling to proclaim the Gospel, teach the faith and to act justly to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Also on this feast I recall hearing that\u00a0pious legend of Saint Nicholas\u00a0that was feeling rather angered by Arius at the Council of Nicea that he got up and kicked Arius&#8217; butt, or perhaps he just slapped Arius and hard. I am trying to imagine the scene&#8230;Santa Claus had a backbone or was really a thug: theologian meets heretic.\u00a0And I am trying to think how annoying Arius was to the Council Fathers and to Nicholas and if there is a Vatican II analog.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Nicholas&#8217; relics are in Bari, Italy and he is honored by both the Eastern and Western Churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord led the just in the right path; and showed him the kingdom of God. Let us pray with the Church: O God, Who did adorn the holy Bishop Nicholas with innumerable miracles; grant, we beseech Thee, that by his merits and prayers we may be delivered from the flames of hell. Saint Nicholas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/saint-nicholas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Nicholas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29168,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24159\/revisions\/29168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}