As the sailors from Bari were nearing home after securing the relics of St. Nicholas in Myra, they stopped in the harbor of San Giorgio (St. George), four miles southeast of Bari. They went ashore on May 8, 1087, in the village of San Giorgio where they built a proper container for bringing the bones to Bari. They needed an appropriate box to carry the relics in procession into the city. After removing the bones from their temporary carrier and placing them in the new reliquary, the party departed for Bari on the next day, the 9th of May.