Nicholas the Wonderworker: The Path to Holiness.

In the fading light of the Roman Empire, in the small Lycian city of Patara, a child was born from tears and desperate prayer. His parents, Theophanes and Nonna, promised their long-awaited son to God, unaware that they were giving the world its greatest wonderworker.

This is the story of Nicholas-not the mythical figure draped in legends, but the living, breathing man who walked the dusty roads of Asia Minor. Follow his journey from a boy who lost everything, to a young deacon facing torture in Diocletian's prisons, to the fiery bishop who would strike a heretic at the Council of Nicaea and secretly toss gold through a poor man's window.

From the ancient prayers whispered by his grandmother to the stormy sea he calmed with a word, from the sword he stayed from the necks of the innocent to the quiet death in his cell-this is the story of the man behind the mitre.