beginning with one of Saint Nicholas. The museum was led for more than 16 years by founding director Kent dur Russell. Morsink, a Dutch art historian and icon expert in Russian icons ...

An icon of St. Nicholas painted in 1294 for a Russian Orthodox church on Lipno Island in northwestern Russia. Public Domain 4. He is the patron saint of unmarried people, fishermen, pawnbrokers ...

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Icon of St. Nicholas, from whom the figure of Santa Claus is derived ... From there, word passed to the Latin West, and upriver to Russia. Soon, pilgrims from all over Christendom were journeying to ...

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