About Ukrainian Saint Nicholas

St. Nicholas, Svyatyi Mykolay, comes to Ukraine on December the 19th.

He is one of the most popular saints of the Eastern and Western churches. Little is known about him except that he was bishop of Myra (now in Turkey) in the 4th century, and that he was probably born in Patara (near modern Kalamaki, Turkey). Legends of his charity, especially toward children, and of miracles associated with him, soon spread throughout Europe. In Ukraine the cult of Saint Nicholas was probably introduced by Bishop Yefrem , to whom a popular manuscript on the miracles of Saint Nicholas is attributed.