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We have hoards of grasshoppers in summer and my husband just found this;<br /><br /><br /><br />4. THE NEO-MARTYR NICHOLAS<br /><br />Nicholas was born in Epira. He was tortured by the Turks for the Faith of Christ and beheaded in Trikkala in 1617 A.D. A reliquary containing the head of this martyr is preserved today in one of the Meteora monasteries in Thessaly. He performs many miracles, heals the gravest diseases and is especially known to repel grasshoppers from fields.