O all-merciful Father Nicholas, shepherd and teacher of all who flow with faith to your intercession and call upon you with warm prayer! Strive quickly and deliver the flock of Christ from the wolves that are destroying it: and protect and protect every Christian country with your holy prayers from worldly rebellion, cowardice, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from famine, flood, fire, sword and sudden death. And just as you had mercy on three men imprisoned, and delivered them from the king’s wrath and the beating of the sword: so have mercy on me, in mind, word and deed, in the darkness of sins, and deliver me from the wrath of God and eternal executions: for through your intercession and help, and through His mercy and grace, Christ God will give me a quiet and sinless life in this world, and will deliver me from this foolish state, and will grant me honor with all the saints forever and ever.