Saturday, December 07, 2013

Saint Nicholas Feast Day



At Art yesterday I had the smaller kids, and we read about the great Saint, and did some Art too. I loved these young versions of the great and generous saint, patron of more causes than any saint! Here's a list I found at http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/people/



Archers
Apothecaries (pharmacists)
Armed forces police
Bakers
Bankers
Bargemen
Barrel makers
Boatmen
Boot blacks
Bottlers
Boys
Brewers
Brides
Businessmen
Butchers
Button-makers
Candle makers
Captives
Chandlers (suppliers of ships)
Children
Choristers
Citizens
Clergy
Clerks
Cloth trade & merchants
Coopers (barrelmakers)
Corn measurers & merchants
Court recorders, registrars, clerks
Dock workers
Drapers
Druggists
Embalmers
Falsely accused
Ferrymen
Firefighters
Fishermen
Florists
Grain dealers & merchants
Grocers
Grooms
Haberdashers
Infants
Infertile
Judges
Lace makers & sellers
Lawsuits lost unjustly
Lawyers
Lemko people, Ukraine
Linen merchants
Longshoremen
Lovers
Maidens
Mariners
Merchants
Military intelligence
Millers
Murano glassmakers
Murderers
Navigators
Newlyweds
Notaries
Oil merchants
Orphans
Packers
Parish clerks
Paupers
Pawnbrokers
Pedlars
Perfumeries
Perfumers
Pharmacists
Pilgrims
Pirates
Poets
Poor people
Preachers
Prisoners
Prostitutes
Pupils
Rag pickers
Ribbon weavers
Robbers & thieves
Schoolchildren
Sailors
Scholars
Sealers
Seed merchants
Shearmen
Shipwreck victims
Shipwrights & gaugers
Ships carpenters
Shoemakers
Shoe shiners
Shopkeepers
Skippers
Soldiers
Spice-dealers
Spinsters
Students
Tanners
Teachers
Thieves
Timber merchants
Travelers
Unjustly condemned
Unmarried men
Unmarried women
Virgins
Watermen
Weavers
Wine porters, merchants & vendors
Women, desirous of marrying
Woodturners

















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