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His health began to fail him during his last years. While often sick, he tried to be in church even then, fending off calls that he should stay home with the remark that, ‘I will be healed in the church. But at home, I will get even sicker.'. Advise by doctors to seek a change of climate, he refused, saying, ‘Everyone loves me so here, and I want to die in the arms of my [spiritual] children.' On [[October 23]], Abp. Nicholas saw that his final days had come and asked that '…we … begin the burial rite of a bishop.' Late on [[October 25]], as the bells of St. Nicholas [[cathedral]] were ringing for evening service on the feast of the Iveron [[Icon]] of the [[Theotokos|Mother of God]], he departed from this world to the Lord on that same [[feast day]] as he arrival to his Alma-Ata [[cathedra]], on the feast of the Icon of Iveron Mother of God.
The funeral service for Metr. Nicholas was performed on [[October 28]], 1955 by Bp. Hermogen (Golubev) of Tashkent and Central Asia at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Alma-Ata. He was buried in the cemetery of Alma-Ata.
==Glorification==
During 2000, the Holy Synod of the Church of Russia [[glorification|glorified]] as a saint the confessor, wonderworker, and intercessor for the Russian land and Kazakhstan, Metropolitan Nicholas of Alma-Ata and Kazakhstan.
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