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Ellen, PA

I received the very beautiful Entombment icon on Good Friday. Our priest carried it in the procession with The Holy Shroud. It was a great blessing and especially to receive it on Good Friday and take to the church in perfect timing. Thank You again and again ?? for the holy icons!!

Марина, США

Недавно купила чудесную икону Серафима Соровского. Понравилась очень. Это моя вторая икона из вашего магазина.

Maria, Oracle, AZ

Thank you so much for the beautiful way you shipped the relics. They are beautiful & I hope Santa Filomena is happy in her new home!

Anthony, FL

St. Maximilian Kolbe’s relic has arrived safe and sound. It’s incredible to think such a rare relic is now in my possession. Thank you for the beautiful certificate as well. His relic will be treasured among the rest of the saints I’m blessed to be a custodian of. Hope to deal with you again soon!

Robert, CA

The relics arrived last Friday- thank you! I am pleased with the careful packaging and the careful documentation of these relics!

Мощевик с мощами Святителя Николая, епископа Мир Ликийских

Reliquary theca with relics of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, the Miracleworker of Bari

Oval glass-fronted silvered brass reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. The relics are affixed to a gilt paper starburst on the ground of red silk, surrounded by silver wire ornamentation and identified in Latin on manuscript cedula label as Ex Ossibus S. Nicolai Ep. Myr. (of the bone of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra). On the back, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Francesco Emilio Cugini (†1872), Bishop (from 1855 - Archbishop) of Modena, Italy.

Saint Nicholas of Myra († ca. 345) was buried in a church in Myra (modern-day Turkey) and his tomb by the Middle Ages already became a popular place of Christian pilgrimage. In May of 1087, under the pretext of preserving them from the Muslim Turks who occupied Myra, relics of the Saint were stolen by Italian merchants from the place of his burial and transported to Italy where they are still kept in a crypt of a specially built Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari. According to legend, when Italian merchants opened the sarcophagus, a spicy smell of myrrh spread from the relics of Saint. Merchants from Bari managed to take only some of the relics of the Saint, leaving many smaller fragments in the grave. These fragments were collected by Venetian sailors during the First Crusade (1096-1099) and taken to Venice, where they were kept in the church of St. Nicholas. Modern scientific research in Bari and Venice proved that fragments in two cities belonged to the same skeleton. A small part of the relics is still kept in Turkey in Church of St. Nicholas.