Name saints

Saints named Nicholas

5 saints with the name Nicholas, which is also written Nicolas, Niklas, Nils, Klaus, Claus, Nicolás, Nicola, Niccolò, Mikołaj, Nikolai, Nick, Nico, Nikolaus or Nikola. A name day is usually kept on the feast of one’s name saint: for Nicholas, for example on 6 December, the feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra.

• Saint Nicholas of Myra

  Bishop · Bishop of Myra, patron of children and sailors; his relics came to Bari in 1087

  6 DecemberOptional memorialVisit the tomb

• Saint Nicholas of Flüe

  21 March

• Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky

  Ukrainian bishop

  2 AprilVisit the tomb

• Blessed Nicholas (Mykola) Charnetsky

  Martyr, 20th century (Nazi and Soviet persecution), Ukraine and places of Soviet and Nazi imprisonment

  27 June

• Blessed Nicolas Steno

  Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop

  5 DecemberVisit the tomb

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