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How do you know saint Nicholas has done things for you?

I don't like to talk about it. It has to do with an automobile accident that should've killed me, with a co-worker I met in the emergency room, who was unable to pay the bill for his litle girl (whose name of course, was Nichole), and with a television program that just happened to come on that night as I was lying in my hospital bed.

You should be aware that:

1. At the time of my accident I had been stalling on a return to a fuller sacramental life in the Church; and

2. According to tradition, Nicholas has a reputation for secret gifts to the poor, for looking out for children, and for assault and battery (he slugged the arch-heretic Arius at the first council of Nicaea).

How do you know that it wasn't God who did it?

Of course God did it. Nicholas has no power apart from God. All he did for me was pray: the good things that resulted were entirely God's work.

What happens to the prayers directed to [Christopher]?

I have no idea. But God is merciful.

I really don't think that giving praise to a person is honoring God, when it was God who did the miracle. I am glad that God preserved your life, and I pray (to Him) that he continue to bless you. Please look to him for help, and avoid the middleman. As I pointed out in a previous post, all of the saints in heaven are busy 24/7 worshipping God (Rev. 4-6). Their focus is on the Lord where it should be. There is no indicator anywhere in the Bible that they are concerned about this world, it's people, it's sins, or anything else. God doesn't need their help, he is quite capable all by his self.

Wow, what an incredibly inspirational story testifying to the truth of the Communion of Saints and the munificence of God in showering His Graces on His children.

Thanks be to God you survived and that His Grace preserved your unique ability to witness to the Truth.