became a reader, and then was ordained a priest, where he served in the church, where his uncle bishop nicholas was the rector. emperors, christians became more tolerant, but persecution, nevertheless, continued. the saint was elevated to the episcopal dignity in the city of peace or the pussies of the new archbishop were very fond of people because he was kind, meek , fair, sympathetic, not a single request to he did not go unanswered. with all this, nicholas was remembered by his contemporary as an irreconcilable fighter against paganism with heresies. he destroyed idols and defended the temple, christianity, denounced heretics during his lifetime. the saint became famous for many miracles. once, with his ardent prayer to christ, he saved the city of the world, and from a terrible famine, the saint also repeatedly helped drowning sailors on ships, saved from imprisonment the wrongly condemned saint nicholas lived to a ripe old age and passed away to the lord in the middle of the 4th century, his relics turned out to be no lena miracles were completely beaten both during his earthly life and a

later it was saint nicholas who brought gifts on december 6th with his red cloak, the historical bishop saint nicholas is said to have inspired santa claus is red outfit. but then came martin luther, who brought about the division of the church into catholics and protestants. he also invented the christians, who then came on december 24th for protestants. saint, like nicholas were no longer in demand, but for catholics they were still important. but since saint nicholas was increasingly turning into a commercial santa claus and even nonbelievers started believing in him, the catholics adopted the crist kent, which looks like an angel complete with wings and to top it off a halo. but now it was high time for the protestants to distance themselves from the catholics again. so they again believed in santa claus. got it. most families can settle on santa claus. but the tradition of celebrating christmas with your family only came about at the start of the 19th century. to day santa claus is known almost everywhere. he's called pear, noel and france. bobo, natalie in italy. papa noel in spai

later it was saint nicholas who brought gifts on december 6th with his red cloak, the historical bishop saint nicholas is said to have inspired santa claus is red outfit. but then came martin luther, who brought about the division of the church into catholics and protestants. he also invented the christians, who then came on december 24th for protestants. st. like nicholas were no longer in demand, but for catholics they were still important. but since saint nicholas was increasingly turning into a commercial santa claus and even nonbelievers started believing in him, the catholics adopted the crist kent, which looks like an angel complete with wings and to top it off a halo. but now it was high time for the protestants to distance themselves from the catholics again. so they again believed in santa claus. got it. most families can settle on santa claus. but the tradition of celebrating christmas with your family only came about at the start of the 19th century. to day santa claus is known almost everywhere. he's called pear, noel in france. bobo, natalie in italy. papa noel in spain se

nicholas. he presented him as a grumpy bishop holding a stick, standing beside a hive. a masonic symbol santa is now a freemason. john pinta tried to make santa claus. saint nicholas the patron saint of new york. and so one thing spend todd was trying to do was to get a tradition that wasn't english. there was another member of the new york historical society, and his name was washington irving, and he was a comical right to. he was a satirist and he found pins hard enthusiasm for se nicholas very, very funny. and so he wrote a spoof history of new york and in his parody history, st. nicholas santa claus keeps appearing and helping the settlers to build houses, sort of appearing after the sky smoking a pipe. washington irvings spoof history of new york with a massive best seller. it was a huge, the hugely popular book in early america. and people loved the story. then they started telling them to the children as truth. and for the 1st time, a new name appeared in a drawing. ah santa claus, a name and a story destined for a bright future. the that was a 3rd member of the

bishop. he was nicholas, god was chosen to the place of the deceased, entering the temple.s shoulder and everyone understood that this was the future of the bishops in the church. thus began the service of giving lovingly to his pasta st. nikolaev was loved by ordinary people, for kindness, hearts and mercy, he was quick to help the ministers of the church , a certain person remains such, living in poverty, he decided on the crime of his three beautiful daughters. he thought to sell into slavery and how to feed himself. he learned from god about this conceived sin. three nights in a row to shine nicholas throws bags of gold into the window, there and thus the honor of these young christians we still pray to st. nicholas in all difficulties. image of nicholas the saint is known, even those who are familiar with the history of religion, a very superficially gray-haired man with a strict at the same time humble look on icons and frescoes, he is often depicted from the gospel. in the hands of the legend , the lord himself conveyed to his faithful servant about the miracles that

well so nicholas was bishop myra in the third, fourth century.s well known for many remarkable miracles, including raising children from the dead , and notably giving in the dead, and notably giving in secret . dowries to three girls secret. dowries to three girls who were otherwise going go into prostitution . so that's a source prostitution. so that's a source , him being linked with gift giving and his eventual evolution via dutch into santa claus rights. and we'll get to the gift giving. yes, the european folklore. but to lot of people, santa claus is a make figure. something tell our children to give them a bit hope and a bit of magic. is there anything wrong with that? absolute nothing wrong with that whatsoever . on the contrary, whatsoever. on the contrary, i would argue it's not so much that deceiving children as that we're telling the truth, that these presents derive really above where need mediators . they above where need mediators. they come from this kind of subject , come from this kind of subject, semi—divine or saint like figure

well, sir nicholas was bishop of in the third.uries and he's well known for many remarkable miracles, including raising children from the dead , and children from the dead, and notably giving and seeking dowries to girls who were otherwise going to go into prostitution . so that's a source prostitution. so that's a source of him being linked , give gift of him being linked, give gift giving and his eventual evolution via dutch folklore into santa claus rights. and we'll get to the gift giving and the european folklore. but to a lot of people santa claus is a make believe figure . something make believe figure. something we tell our children to give them a bit of hope and a bit of magic. is there anything wrong with that. absolutely wrong with that whatsoever. on the contrary, i would argue that it's not so much that where children as that we're telling children as that we're telling children truth, that these presents derive really from about where i need haters. they come from this kind of semi—divine saint like figure who for he

and as an outstanding example of late romanesque architecture here nicholas bonham's door was appointed as the 1st german protestant bishop by martin luther in 1542. ah another cross border world heritage site is the ads could be a good mining region located between germany southeast and the check republics northwest for more than 800 years. this mining region was an important source of silver or 10, and uranium, ah, ah, the historic hammer mill called ho, now a hama, produced tools for mining and agricultural work until 19 o. 4. after it was closed, it became germany's 1st museum for smithereens. the next destination on this special edition of check in is the city of alex book in bavaria. it's located at the convergence of the alpine rivers of less and very tough. here, people learned to make use of water resources a long time ago. an elaborate canal system supplied the city with drinking and service water. this led to an economic boom. ah, there are numerous fountains and canals. busy in the city's old town. ah, the waterworks at the red gate are proof of how intertwine alex books history is with water. for almost 500 y

nicholas after the liturgy, which was held by the metropolitan. volokolamsky anthony , bishopf the russian orthodox church. now eleonora mitrofanova is in direct contact with us or honor valentina greetings to you. hello hello, please tell me more about what happened today, uh, very holy nicholas of mirlyakhinsky the wonderworker is an embassy church. eh, the russian orthodox church passed a solemn blessing on the occasion of its seventieth anniversary. the metochions of the patriarch of moscow of all russia, with the participation of the chairman of the departments for external church relations, metropolitan anthony of volokolamsk, were also and er, metropolitans of love, gabriel bishop of minsk. e, gerasim and other representatives of the bulgarian church and the romanian church was the ambassador of serbia was the representative of belarus and many, many parishioners the church was blocked from one side. well, the cops were there. so it seems to me some kind of great danger, all this did not seem to be tried. they somehow interfered with the noise of the liturgy, but of cou

there are some officers dressed up as saint nicholas, an early christmas bishop who inspired the concept they deliver toys and books to shelters in the town of where heavy fighting between ukrainian and russian forces is ongoing. >> in national news tonight, the u.s. senate today unveiling the massive government funding bill just days before a potential government shutdown. >> the price said roughly 1.7 trillion dollars among other things. the bill expands health care coverage for new mothers, veterans and children. it includes billions of dollars to combat homelessness and bipartisan reforms to the electoral college process. democrats need just 10 senate republicans to pass the bill by friday. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says the deal does reflect republican priorities and he is encouraging his party members to support the bill. >> the federal government has ordered wells fargo to pay almost 4 billion dollars in fines. government says the banking institution illegally charge customers, fees and interest over several years. regulators say the bank repossessed cars after inflat

nicholas day. some officers dressing up as saint nick an early christmas bishop who inspired the concept of santa claus. he's in blue, which is interesting. they did deliver toys and books to homes and bomb shelters in the to nest town of bakhmut where heavy fighting between ukrainian and russian forces is still ongoing. but as you can see, providing a lot of smiles there for some of the kids in that war torn country. coming up next at noon, a push to get more nar can and save people from overdosing in california. how a new proposed law >> would require certain businesses to have it on hand. plus, a man facing extortion charges in connection to a sextortion scam links to the suicide of a south bay teen. why the victim's mother wants him to be held responsible. and a trump era immigration policy gets extended. what lawmakers on capitol hill are doing about the immigration crisis. (steven) every time i come to see caremore, they go above and beyond to take care of me. i feel a lot better now. i'm taking medication for what i should have been taking years ago. (vo) caremore health provides advanced primar

nicholas milevsky monastery. all my life was connected with russia. i studied there at the theological seminary. me russian bishopshere, including blessing the patriarchs, and i won’t give a damn about them today with graduations descended on the cathedral in boryspil chapovitsky convent anastasievskaya convent in zhytomyr they checked the premises looked at the launches my phone thought i have some is there any connection with russia or there are some telephones, but the rector of the chaev theological seminary. the sbu accused him of allegedly distributing pro-russian narratives as evidence found in seminary books in russian, it is now outside the law that books, like icons from canonical churches, began to be burned altogether this week. the supreme court of ukraine essentially legalized the worship of executioners, namely, it officially recognized the symbols of the ss division galicia, not a nazi mermaid to a volunteer ukrainian ussr july 1943 lvov parade of ukrainian accomplices of hitler throw off their hands in a nazi salute and next to the emblem of punishers with galina decoration of the nuchenberg tribu