The discovery could muddy the conventional wisdom about the true resting place of the saint’s relics, which is currently ...

You may call him Santa Claus, but the bearded guy in the red suit is a man known by many names. Whether it’s St. Nick, Santa ...

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.

Saint Nicholas Day. The images featured in posts (shown below) were captured by Zehra Tekeci from AA, captioned (emphasis ours): "A limestone sarcophagus is uncovered during excavations at St ...

Moore took liberty with the date of St. Nicholas day, which is December 5, characterizing it as the night before Christmas,” she continues, adding that although this practice was most common in ...

In lieu of a traditional editorial, the editorial board presents the famous traditional poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” with ...

St. Nicholas died around 350. He was seen as a very prayerful man and was the bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, in the ...

Santa Claus, tinkering elves and flying reindeer are universal symbols of Christmas, but in Northeast Pennsylvania they share ...

With the beard, the digitally rendered appearance is remarkably like that recounted in the 1823 poem, Twas the Night Before ...

Wishing you and all a very happy holiday season. Please enjoy the following poem. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement ...

Members of the Rollingstone Luxembourg Heritage Museum celebrated Saint Nicholas Day with the students at the Rollingstone ...

Santa Claus, or St Nicholas was born into a very wealthy family, around 280 AD in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey. Unfortunately, he lost his parents at a young age and was raised by his ...