Miracle of Wheat Multiplication
During a great famine that Myra experienced in 311-312, a ship was in the port at anchor, which was loaded with wheat for the Emperor in Constantinople. Nicholas invited the sailors to unload a part of the wheat to help in time of need. The sailors at first disliked the request, because the wheat had to be weighed accurately and delivered to the Emperor. Only when Nicholas promised them that they would not suffer any loss for their consideration, the sailors agreed. When they arrived later in the capital, they made a surprising find: the weight of the load had not changed, although the wheat removed in Myra was enough for two full years and could even be used for sowing.
Read more about this topic: Saint Nicholas
Famous quotes containing the words miracle of, miracle and/or wheat:
“O miracle of men!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The sower scatters broad his seed,
The wheat thou strew’st be souls.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)