Roman Catholic Saint. She is remembered for charitable and miraculous deeds in addition to her mummified body, which is considered be the best preserved corpse in Europe. At least 50 of her miraculous healings and deeds are documented in the church records. She was born in Koper, Slovenia. Daughter of a Venetian merchant, she had interest in the church and charitable work as a young girl. In 1465, her parents placed her in the Benedictine Monastery on the Island of St. Socerba in Venice, Italy where she attended school and began her formal religious training. Since 1495, she was a nun in the Benedictine Monastery of St. Servolo in Venice. As a woman of great capabilities, the nuns elected her to be Abbess. In the year 1505, Father Antonio Surian nominated her to be in charge of the renovations of St. Johannes of Laterano Monastery. After her leadership there, the monastery became very well-known to aristocrats, who brought their daughters there to be educated. Many of these young ladies stayed to become nuns. She died on the day that she had predicted and was buried in a wooden coffin in the church cemetery. Fourteen years after her death, the nuns had to move to St Anne's Monastery and wanted to move Nicolasa's remains. Upon opening her grave, the remains were found to be uniformly in tact and a pleasant aroma about it. Her fingers have the appearance of wood with dark fingernails. At this point, her body was brought to Holy Cross Church to be observed for three days. Since no change was noted in this time, orders were given to keep the body in the monastery and treat with great respect. Her remains were laid to rest in a sarcophagus of stone and were exposed for 163 years before moving. In the year 1700 the body was transported to the monastery chorus where it was exposed by the window of rostrum for public viewing. It is believed that thousands of worshipers have viewed her remains. Later, the remains were placed in the chapel. Since the authorities closed all the monasteries in Venice in 1810, Adelaide Zorzi gave the remains to the painter Gaetano Gresler, who hid thousands of artifacts from the Napoleon army. He brought them to St. Blasie on July 23, 1818. Her mummified body is on display at St Blaise Church for religious, scientific, and historical reasons, and some refer to her as the “St. Blaise's Mummy.” Other mummified bodies which are located in the church are Blessed Leon Bembo, St. Givovanni Olini, St. Barbara, St. Sebastian and St. Mary of Egypt. Although not all died of natural causes, none were diseased. Recently in 2012, a scan was performed on her remains and it was documented that her internal organs including the heart were all intact. There is no scientific explanation for why these bodies did not decay. The church believes that the mummification is miraculous.