Nicholas the Confessor

Nicholas the Confessor was born in Crete and came to Constantinople to visit his kinsman Saint Theodore, abbot of the Studios monastery. He stayed there and became a monk, spending his life in labors for the salvation of his soul. In the persecution of Leo V the Armenian he was cruelly tortured together with Theodore. After Theodore's death he became abbot of Studios. He is said to have healed Eudocia, wife of the emperor Basil, and Helen, wife of the patrician Manuel. He reposed in 868. The Orthodox Church commemorates him on 4 February. The date is that of the Orthodox Menaion (13 days later on the old calendar).