Happy Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (a little late)! All of our celebrating in the past week has left me with little time to blog. So I've got a lot of catching up to do.
On Friday, December 5th, our book was in preparation of the feast that would come the next day. We opened and read The Life of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. This is certainly my favorite English language children's book about St. Nicholas. It has nice detailed iconographic illustrations and the text is told in a gentle rhyming verse. It gives many details from the life of St. Nicholas, including his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. But I will say, it leaves out one of our favorite stories - that of St. Nicholas hitting Arius for teaching heresy. Nicholas was defrocked, but that night the Mother of God appeared to the Bishops in a dream and told them to return Nicholas to his Episcopal seat. My boys really like the fact that Nicholas was so passionate about preserving the true teaching of our faith that his passions got the better of him and he just smacked Arius! But even without this story, we really like this little paperback.
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We have this one, I like it a lot.
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