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    Saint Nicholas and his servant (Sint Nikolaas en zijn knecht, 1850) is a Dutch picture book from 1850, written by Jan Schenkman. The book is about Sinterklaas'...
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    St. Nicholas' Eve (5 December) in the Netherlands and on the morning of Saint Nicholas Day (6 December) in Belgium, Luxembourg, western Germany, and northern...
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    sung during the Sinterklaas holidays. He also wrote the book Saint Nicholas and his Servant (1850). "Digital Library for Dutch Literature - Jan Schenkman"...
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    Zwarte Piet (category Companions of Saint Nicholas)
    Knecht (Saint Nicholas and his servant in English). It is considered the first time a servant character was included in a printed version of the Saint Nicholas...
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    sometimes accompanies St. Nicholas. However, Krampus will at times be on his own, visiting homes and businesses. Saint Nicholas dispenses gifts, while Krampus...
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    Santa Claus (redirect from Saint Nick)
    4th-century Christian bishop Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children. Saint Nicholas became renowned for his reported generosity and secret gift-giving. The...
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    peace grew. Nicholas's mother, as well as his cousin Emperor Wilhelm II, urged Nicholas to negotiate for peace. Despite the efforts, Nicholas remained evasive...
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    Knecht Ruprecht (category Companions of Saint Nicholas)
    pʁɛçt] ; English: Farmhand Rupert, Servant Rupert or Farmhand Robert, Servant Robert) is a companion of Saint Nicholas as described in the folklore of Germany...
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    Grigori Rasputin (category Nicholas II of Russia)
    Rasputin met Nicholas II and his empress consort, Alexandra Feodorovna. In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas' and Alexandra's...
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  • holy persons who have not been canonized as saints in the lesser categories of beati, venerabili, and servants of God. These titles indicate grades on the...
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    politician Cindy Nicholas (1957–2016), Canadian long-distance swimmer Cyril Nicholas (1898–1961), Sri Lankan Burgher army captain, civil servant, and forester...
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    illusionists and escapologists, due to his facility at using trompe-l'œil when creating his hideouts. There are Catholic churches dedicated to Saint Nicholas Owen...
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    and political life of her husband, Tsar Nicholas II. Her reputation suffered due to her influence over Nicholas, particularly in her insistence on maintaining...
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    Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (category Children of Nicholas II of Russia)
    was the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with haemophilia, which his parents tried treating...
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    Ivan Kharitonov (category Court of Nicholas II of Russia)
    1998 in Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg for his grandfather, the Romanovs, their servants (Anna Demidova and Alexei Trupp), and the other victims...
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    Valois-Saint-Rémy, self proclaimed "Comtesse de la Motte" (22 July 1756 – 23 August 1791) was a French noblewoman, notorious adventuress and a thief;...
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    the Servant to Seraphim and the Theotokos. Motovilov was born in Simbirsk to a noble family, and graduated from Kazan University. According to his notes...
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    Major festivities include: Feast of Saint Nicholas. The feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of, among other things, children,...
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  • becoming canonised saints: as of December 2018[update], two are recognised as being Servants of God, one is recognised as being Venerable, and 10 have been...
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  • Nicholas John Smith (5 March 1934 – 6 December 2015) was an English comedian and actor. He appeared in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, playing Mr...
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    (Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted...
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    Père Fouettard (category Companions of Saint Nicholas)
    Saint Nicholas on his rounds during Saint Nicholas Day (6 December) dispensing lumps of coal and/or beatings to naughty children while Saint Nicholas...
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    1825, an uprising Nicholas quickly suppressed. Nicholas completely lacked his brother's spiritual and intellectual breadth; he saw his role simply as that...
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    Sydney Gibbes (category Court of Nicholas II of Russia)
    1917 served as the English tutor to the children of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. When Nicholas abdicated the throne in March 1917 Gibbes voluntarily accompanied...
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    Godelieve (redirect from Saint Godelina)
    Eventually he had her strangled by his servants. Every year, on the Sunday following 5 July, a procession celebrating Saint Godelieve takes place in Gistel...
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    Russian interregnum of 1825 (category Nicholas I of Russia)
    crown and blessed Nicholas as his sovereign but refused to come to Saint Petersburg, leaving the dangerous task of resolving the crisis to Nicholas alone...
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    the Terrible, the first crowned tsar of all Russia. Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, and his immediate family were executed in 1918, but there are...
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    Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (category Servants of God)
    Dicastery for the Causes of Saints approved the beatification and canonization process of Cardinal Kim, who is now called a Servant of God. 이 땅에 평화를 - 김수환...
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    Black Elk (redirect from Nicholas Black Elk)
    known as Black Elk (baptized Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950), was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man") and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota...
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    Alexei Trupp (category Court of Nicholas II of Russia)
    1856 – 17 July 1918) was the Latvian head footman in the household of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Trupp was an ethnic Latgalian, born in Rezhitsky Uyezd, in...
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