Icon. "Nicholas the Wonderworker (Summer)"

The icon shows a half-length, frontal image of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, with a high, open forehead, short light-brown hair, a mustache and a small beard. He wears episcopal vestments: a blue sticharion, a red phelonion with golden flowers, and a lilac omophorion with golden crosses. His right hand is raised in blessing, his left holds an open Gospel. Around his head is a round halo in the form of a thin red circle; to the left and right is the Church Slavonic inscription: "Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker." In the upper corners of the icon, amid clouds, are images of Christ offering the Gospel and the Mother of God offering an omophorion. Christ wears a red tunic and blue himation, with a cruciform halo around his head; his right hand is raised in blessing. The Mother of God wears a blue tunic and red maphorion, with a round halo around her head. The image's field is enclosed within a thin rectangular red frame. The background of the icon is golden with a soft sheen; the field of the frame and the halo are decorated with a floral ornament, and the perimeter of the icon is underscored with a gold-and-red contour.

Legend: in folk tradition, the name "Summer Nicholas" refers not so much to the time of an event as to a depiction of Nicholas without a mitre.

The tradition of venerating Saint Nicholas in the Ukrainian lands dates back to the official adoption of Christianity in Kyivan Rus.

Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker is invoked for help, for the protection of children, and for keeping families and fields safe from fire. He is the patron of travelers, sailors, farmers, beekeepers and children, and a protector of the poor, the sick, and the condemned.