{"id":897,"date":"2011-02-09T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2011-02-09T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:00:39","slug":"infertile-muslim-woman-gave-birth-to-son-after-prayer-to-st-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/infertile-muslim-woman-gave-birth-to-son-after-prayer-to-st-nicholas\/","title":{"rendered":"Infertile Muslim Woman Gave Birth to Son after Prayer to St. Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/muslim-woman.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/muslim-woman-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"muslim-woman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-898\" \/><\/a>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax-religion.com\/?act=news&#038;div=8121\">Interfax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>January 21, Interfax &#8211; A Muslim woman in Russian Republic of Bashkiria, who was unsuccessfully treated for infertility for 14 years, gave birth to a son after praying before the icon of St. Nicholas in an Orthodox church. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Muslim, but for some reason I believed that it (the icon &#8211; IF) will help me,&#8221; the happy mother is quoted as saying by Ufa edition of the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.<\/p>\n<p>Her friends advised her to go to the church: her marriage has almost failed and the diagnosis sounded as a death verdict to family happiness &#8211; it is impossible to give birth with such decease. <\/p>\n<p>It was the first time the woman came to the church, she was a little bit scared and did not how to pray. Parishioners told her &#8220;sincerely, from the heart&#8221; ask St. Nicholas.<\/p>\n<p>Then she invented a simple prayer: &#8220;Nicholas the Wonderworker help me, give us a son, please&#8230;&#8221; Finally, the woman took off her favorite golden chain and left it near the icon &#8211; there is a belief that such gifts make a prayer more effective.<\/p>\n<p>She understood that she is pregnant a month after. Her son Tamerlan makes his parents happy: he is so cheerful and clever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Interfax January 21, Interfax &#8211; A Muslim woman in Russian Republic of Bashkiria, who was unsuccessfully treated for infertility for 14 years, gave birth to a son after praying before the icon of St. Nicholas in an Orthodox church. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Muslim, but for some reason I believed that it (the icon &#8211; IF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}