* Finding of the relics ( 1960 ) of New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon, of Mytilene ( 1463 )

* Finding of the relics of Saints Bassian and Jonah, monks, of Pertomsk in Solovki

* Finding of the relics of righteous Nicodemus, Gamaliel, and Abibas in 428

* Finding of the relics of Saint Metrophanes of Voronezh, the first bishop there ( 1832 )

* Nicholas Clapp, The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands, Houghton Mifflin ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-395-95786-9.

On February 20, 981 the relics of St Edward the Martyr were transferred from Wareham and received at the abbey with great ceremony, thereafter turning Shaftesbury into a major site of pilgrimage for miracles of healing.

Memorialised here too is Edward the Martyr, King of England, whose relics are kept nearby in St Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church.

The relics of St Edward the Martyr were translated from Wareham and received at the abbey with great ceremony.

Wilson-Claridge donated the relics to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which placed them in St Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church near

The Saint Edward Brotherhood was established at Brookwood in 1982 to prepare and care for the Church in which the relics of Saint Edward the Martyr were to be enshrined.

* Translation of the relics of St Valentinus the Martyr ( 3rd c .) ( July 6 ) to Sambir Cathedral ( St. Paraskeva Pyatnycya church, Lviv ).

* New Martyr Nicholas of Metsovo, at Trikala, whose relics are at Meteora ( 1617 )

* Translation of the relics ( 1534 ) of New Martyr George of Kratovo and Sofia ( 1515 )

The Basilica di San Nicola ( Saint Nicholas ) was founded in 1087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were brought from Myra in Lycia, and now lie beneath the altar in the crypt, where are buried the Topins, which are a legacy of old thieves converted to good faith.

The Russian Church, in the Carrassi district of Bari, was built in the early 20th century to welcome Russian pilgrims who came to the city to visit the church of Saint Nicholas in the old city where the relics of the saint remain.

Richeza's relics are located since then in St. Nicholas church in Brauweiler and since 2002 in the Klotter parish church.

In the confusion, sailors from Bari in Italy seized the relics of Saint Nicholas, over the objections of the monks caring for them, and spirited the remains away to Bari, where they arrived on May 9, 1087, and soon brought that city visitors making pilgrimage to Saint Nicholas.

" The Russian Church felt so little separated from the Western that it instituted a liturgical feast to commemorate the largely violent transfer of the relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra from Asia to Bari in Italy in 1089.

The week features many processions — one night features relics, another, St. Nicholas statue — and religious services.

For both the religious and commercial advantages of a major pilgrimage site, the Italian cities of Venice and Bari vied to get the Nicholas relics.

* Translation of the relics ( 1087 ) of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker ( ca. 345 ) from Myra to Bari

* The passage of the relics ( 1087 ) of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker through the island of Zakynthos, while on their way to Bari.

* Translation of the holy relics ( 1087 ) of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker ( 343 )

Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra provided a new cypress coffin to receive the relics.

The first documented pilgrimages to Andechs were in 1138, when count Berthold II ordered his subjects to make the journey to venerate the relics in the chapel of St Nicholas at the schloss.

In 1417 a dispute arose concerning who should take the place of honour amongst the Rectors in the City churches at the Whit Monday procession, a place that had been claimed from time to time by the Rectors of St Peter Cornhill, St Magnus the Martyr and St Nicholas Cole Abbey.

* Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky ( 1884 – 1959 ) Bishop and Martyr

* Martyr Nicholas Pantopolis at Constantinople ( 1672 )

* Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia

* Birthday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II

* St. Peter Martyr with St. Nicholas of Bari, St. Benedict and an Angel Musician ( 1504 )

* Hieromartyrs Gerontius and Serapion ( hieromonks ), Otar ( deacon ), Monk-martyrs Germanus, Bessarion, and Michael, and Martyr Symeon, of Davit Gareji Monastery, Georgia ( 1851 )

* Newly revealed martyrs Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene of Lesbos

Born the son of a priest, he was ordained as a deacon by Pope Nicholas I.

After Leo IV, Pope Nicholas I, who had been made a deacon by Leo IV, decreed that the figure of the cock ( rooster ) should be placed on every church.

Foxe was ordained deacon by Nicholas Ridley on 24 June 1550, and his circle of friends, associates, and supporters included John Hooper, William Turner, John Rogers, William Cecil, and most importantly John Bale, who was to become a close friend and " certainly encouraged, very probably guided, Foxe in the composition of his first martyrology.

Nicholas was born in the Smolensk prefecture in the Russian Empire to Dimitry Kasatkin, a Russian Orthodox deacon.

Nicholas was ordained a deacon on July 12 ( July 24 ) in the same year, on the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul.

* New Hieromartyr Nicholas, deacon, ( 1943 )