St. Nicholas of Myra (Bari) T-Shirt

St. Nicholas of Myra (Bari) T-Shirt

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St. Nicholas of Myra (Bari) from an Italian holy card. The following quote from CatholicSaints.Info explains the several pieces of iconography found in this design:  "Nicholas could have found communion with God in a monastic life, but to walk within the confines of a cloister would be insufficient for the saint’s devotion. He wanted to be able to follow the footsteps of Jesus in the Palestine, which he did. On his voyages across the sea, he calmed the waves (which is why he is patron of sailors and travellers).A citizen of Patara lost his fortune, and because he could not raise dowries for his three daughters, he was going to give them over to prostitution. After hearing this, Nicholas took a bag of gold and threw it through the window of the man’s house at night. The eldest girl was married with it as her dowry. He performed the same action for each of the other girls. The three purses, portrayed in art with the saint, were mistakenly thought to be the heads of children, and thus

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