It’s easy to imagine Saint Nicholas as just as mythical as the modern-day Santa Claus -- but he actually was a real person.

A coastal drive from Dalaman to Antalya leads through Roman theaters, Byzantine islands, buried basilicas, and ongoing ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The history of Saint Nicholas, perhaps the most iconic figure of the holiday season, goes back hundreds of years. In this trip Back Down the Pennsylvania Road, Mike Stevens stopped ...

Who was real Santa Claus? Santa Claus, the jolly figure of Christmas, has roots in Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop from ...

Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe.

When you think of St. Nicholas, you probably think of a bearded man in a red coat in a sleigh delivering presents on ...

Every year, the story of the jolly man in red bringing toys to the children reaches our ears. Where did he come from? When ...

A special piece of history and Christmas is on display in Annadale, Virginia and has been there since the 1980s.Each December ...

By December 1944, when the 28th Infantry Division reached Wiltz, Santa Claus had been MIA for years. And then . . .

Certain legendary figures are actually rooted in history, and Saint Nicholas, otherwise known as Santa Claus, is one of them.

Many Christmas staples feel timeless, but historians note they often began as games, folk customs or practical rituals. What we now call Christmas is a patchwork of theology, folklore, economics ...

Every year on December 25th we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We call this time of year Christmas as we ...