Cyril and Methodius were the Greek linguists whose translation of Christian texts into the Slavic language inspired Fr. John Veniaminov, later St. Innocent of Alaska, to establish Alaska’s first ...

In Robert Walter Weir’s c. 1838 canvas of St. Nicholas (detail), perhaps influenced by a Washington Irving story, the painter envisioned both an enigmatic trickster and a dispenser of holiday cheer.

St. Nicholas Day is celebrated every year on Dec. 6, ... Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years, ...

Art World Here Comes Santa Claus! Archaeologists Discover the Tomb of Saint Nicholas. ... Saint Nicholas, a bishop known in part for his kindness to children and for secret gift giving died in 343.

The legends surrounding jolly old St. Nicholas — celebrated annually on Dec. 6 — go way beyond delivering candy and toys to children. ... Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, ...

Eventually, St. Nicholas morphed into the secular Santa Claus.Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years ...

Just in time for the 16th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, when all its buildings and the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church were destroyed, a formal lease and purchase agreemen… ...

Eventually, St. Nicholas morphed into the secular Santa Claus.Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years ...