[BonRad]

A great defender of the doctrine of the Ever-Virginity of the Blessed Mother, Mary Most Holy.

I encountered a story once that had it that when a man came upon him and denounced this doctrine with blasphemies, St. Nicholas thumped the ground with his crozier and it opened up and swallowed the blasphemer.

[Cronos]

and the Church of St. Mikołaj in Myra, Turkey

At the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325, when Arian doctrine was rejected he got into a heated debate with Arius himself about whether there was a time when the Word did not exist. Nicholas strongly disagreed.

The debate ended suddenly when Nicholas punched out Arius then and there on the floor of the council