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# In the 1642/3 edition of Symeon Metaphrastes' "Services and Life of Nicholas the Wonderworker", a curious eighteenth-century note appears in the margin of one page:
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- Published: 2023-12-13T11:47:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:05.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Faith, Books, Ethnography

"If things go completely badly, pray to dear little Nicholas: he will drop to his knees before Christ and beg forgiveness for you."

The main thing to know about the veneration of Saint Nicholas the Pleasant in Russia.