St.Nicholaus - Father Christmas, is protector saint of charities, children, workers and sailors was
lived and buried in his church at Demre in 343 AD. Church was one of the
several Byzantine architectural works and had repaired by Russians in
1850-1864.
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In memory of this benevolent person, who
had caught in a shady lane of Myra
by a nightguard, within a strange suit, holding a huge sack, was
wandering
timidly in the night, We present the Lucky Pebbles of the shores of
Demyra on where Father Noel was standing with his huge luck.
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The excavations of St.Nicholaus church from the sand
mill and mud accumulated of many years were begin in 1989 after its
discovery in 1956. But archaeologists revealed that the church complex
was spread across a larger area within ancient Lycian city of Myra.
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