While it's not celebrated nationwide, St. Nicholas Day holds a special place ... Don Heinrich Tolzmann t old The Cincinnati Enquirer, part of the USA TODAY network, in 2021. Tolzmann is curator ...

After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, announced this week that her team has found a sarcophagus that may contain ...

Santa Claus' origins date back to about 280 A.D. when St. Nicholas was born, the History Channel reports. This would make Santa approximately 1,744 years old today. Need a break? Play the USA ...

to the old families who are here, to the church universal and to the church throughout the ages,” Marable said. “And the holiness of the saint shines, if you will, in St. Nicholas Church.

It is hard to imagine the cheery, plump version of Santa Claus emerged from Saint Nicholas, the 4th century Bishop of Myra who, as a nursing infant, fasted on holy days and whose bones were stolen ...

Saint Nicholas of Myra was an early Christian saint ... with most representations of "Old Saint Nick" dating to centuries after his death in 343 AD. Now his living face can be seen for the first ...

My earliest encounter with St Nicholas is so long ago that I can’t remember exactly when it was, but it happened when I was learning to play the piano, so maybe when I was about seven years old.

The Feast of St. Nicholas, fondly referred to by many across the region as St. Nick's Day, takes place annually on Dec. 6. Though the holiday involves stockings and small gifts, it is separate ...

The legends surrounding jolly old St. Nicholas — celebrated annually on Dec. 6 — go way beyond delivering candy and toys to children. St. Nicholas was a fourth-century Christian bishop from ...

The white-bearded Christian saint whose acts of generosity inspired America’s secular Santa Claus figure is known worldwide — but Saint Nicholas’ origin story is not. The legends surrounding jolly old ...

The legends surrounding jolly old St. Nicholas — celebrated annually on Dec. 6 — go way beyond delivering candy and toys to children. WHO WAS ST. NICHOLAS? St. Nicholas was a fourth century ...