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On 6 December 343, St. Nicholas of Myra died. This day is the feast day of St. Nicholas in the Catholic Church. There is little known of the real history of St. Nicholas and about his early life. Though, he was born on 15 March 270. It also is known that he made a pilgrimage to Palestine area and Egypt. After his return he became bishop of Myra (nowadays in Turkey). In 1087, a group of merchants from the Italian city Bari removed the major bones of St. Nicholas without authorization to their hometown Bari. Now they are enshrined in the wonderful Basilica di San Nicola. There are many beautiful legends of St. Nicholas mostly about his charity. In other stories he even protected a ship in the middle of a storm. Nowadays he is the patron saint of: - Children; - Coopers; - Sailors; - Fishermen; - Merchants; - Brewers; - Pharmacists; - Archers; - Pawnbrokers; - Falsely repentant thieves. Relic Shrine of St. Nicholas  It is the patron saint of many countrie

On 4 February 1926, Albert Frère the son of a nail merchant was born at Fontaine-l'Évêque near Charleroi in Belgium. Since an early age, Frère had to help in the business of his father. When Albert was 17 years old, his father died. He had to leave school and run the family business by hemself. Career At the age of 30, Frère started investing in Belgian steel factories, already by the end of the 1970's he practically controlled the whole steel industry in the region of Charleroi. Later he foresaw the coming steel crisis of the late 1970s and he sold his enterprises to the Belgian state after merging them with the competing steel firm Cockerill to create Cockerill Sambre. Frère built an investment empire around the Swiss holding company Pargesa, which he founded together with the Canadian investor Paul Desmarais. Pargesa took over the Belgian holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert in 1982. He also bought significant stakes in Belgian companies as: Petrofi

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia usually known as the Barcelona Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. Barcelona Cathedral The Barcelona Cathedral is located in the Barrio Gótico, one of the most popular tourist regions of the city. It is dedicated to Eulalia of Barcelona, the co-patron saint of Barcelona, who was a young virgin, who suffered martyrdom during Roman times in the city. One story says that she was exposed naked in the public square and a miraculous snowfall in the mid-spring covered her nudity. The body of the saint is entombed in the cathedral's crypt. Barcelona Cathedral Barcelona Cathedral inside Some royal history In a document from the Second Council of Barcelona in 599, it states that the cathedral was dedicated to the Holy Cross. However this church was damaged by al-Mansur during his attack on Barcelona in 986. In 1046,  Count Ramon Berenguer I and his wife Almodis and Bi

O, 26 November 1436, Infanta Catarina was born in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Family Infanta Catarina was a daughter of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon. Her siblings were: - King Afonso V of Portugal; - Infante Ferdinad of Portugal, Duke of Viseu; - Eleanor of Portugal, who married Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III; - Joan of Portugal, who married King Henry IV of Castile. Catarina of Portugal and her family were members of the noble House of Aviz. Character Like her sisters, Catarina was considered ambitious, shrewd and willful. Love Catarina was promised to marry Charles IV of Navarre but he died before the marriage could take place, and her brother, after securing the marriages of her sisters had no future need of marriage alliances with other royal houses. A nun Catarina turned to a religious life in the convent of Saint Claire. She was very educated and she wrote many books about morality and religion. Death