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saw a house in front of them and they wanted to take shelter in
this house. The host, who gives the children hot food and water,
tells them that they can spend the night there as well. Since they
don’t have a place to go, the children who immediately accept
this offer start to sleep after a while. However, the truth of the mat-
ter is of course not so innocent. The host is a wild butcher who
cuts the children into pieces in their sleep and then salts them
and presses them into a vat. Of course, the aim of the wild butch-
er is to sell the flesh of these three young people, but Nicholas,
who learns the situation through an angel, comes to the butcher’s
house and brings the three children back to life.
He has been on the side of the innocent, and the great Aziz
never tolerated injustice. One day, three innocent men were sen-
tenced to death by the governor because of a bribed court jury.
Having received the news that the men were innocent, Nicholas
came running and just as the executioner lowered his sword, he
pushed the executioner’s arm and made the sword fall to the
ground. Then he unshackled the prisoners, returning their free-
dom to them. In this way, Nicholas, the protector of the innocent,
prevented three people from dying unnecessarily. Then, he an-
grily scolded the bribed court jury for their immorality.
Nicholas has a special bond with the sea and sailors. Because
he always rescued those who were injured in the shipwreck, di-
vided the surging river waters into two and always helped people
find their lost belongings. So in a way he is the beloved father of
sailors. So much so that one day, there was a great famine in Ly-
cia. At that time, commercial ships carrying corn from Alexandria
to Byzantion stopped at Anriake and took a break here. Seeing
the sailors coming, Nicholas ran up to them and told them to
leave 100 kilos of corn per ship in their city. Although the sail-
ors do not like this situation very much, they listen to Nicholas
and leave the corn in Andriake. Later, when the corn-laden fleet
arrived in Byzantion, they realized that the corn they gave was
not decreasing, and they in this witnessed one of the miracles of
Saint Nicholas.

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