Saint Nicholas Day blessed at church or at home. The host wafts incense over the table, then lifts and breaks the bread. Bulgarians also observe 6 December as the name day for those with the names Nikola, Nikolay, Kolyo, Nikolina, Neno, Nenka, Nikoleta and Nina. In the Netherlands the primary occasion for gift-giving is 5 December, when his feast day is celebrated. In Belgium they celebrate Sinterklaas on the morning of the 6 December. In the days leading up to 5 or 6 December (starting when Saint Nicholas has arrived by steamboat around mid-November), young children put their shoes in front of the
St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in the country playing at all Masses, several choir rehearsals per week, and a host of weddings, funerals, and concerts. St. Nicholas is the church in Atlantic City to find traditionally celebrated Novus Ordo Masses with music at each of the eleven regularly scheduled Masses. John P. O'Neill, an American counter-terrorism expert, working for the FBI, and killed in the September 11 attacks, once served as an altar boy in this church and is buried in the churchyard. St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church is a historic church at 1409 Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, Atlantic