For families across the country, the Christmas season started Black Friday. But for Greater Cincinnatians, a special day in early December is when the real festivities begin. The Feast of St. Nicholas ...
On Dec. 6, 345 (traditional date), that saint who inspired the legend of Santa Claus dies in the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor. Born in 270, Saint Nicholas of Myra was a fourth-century Greek ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...
“Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound,” the author Clement Clarke Moore declared in the poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” in 1822. This St. Nicholas was based on a historical figure, ...
A team of archeologists working at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, say they may have found the grave of St. Nicholas, who has been popularized worldwide as “Santa Claus.” Retired Alabama ...
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 ...
When is St. Nicholas Day? What to know about the Christian saint that inspire the Santa Claus legend
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 ...
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