Are you ready for some Christmas cheer? The Yuletide festivities will soon begin on this special day in early December. The Feast of St. Nicholas, fondly referred to by many as St. Nick's Day, takes ...

The church, a national cultural landmark confiscated during the Soviet era, remains state-owned but will now function ...

Patara, birthplace of St Nicholas, is a wide-open sprawl of ruins framed by farmland and dunes in Türkiye. Georg Knoll/laif, Redux Before the iconic red suit and the sleigh, the real St. Nicholas ...

SHEBOYGAN – The saint known for his secret gift-giving, generosity and protection of the vulnerable visited a Sheboygan hospital Thursday, Dec. 4. More than 200 local children and their families ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

(From left) St. Nicholas and Curate of Children, Youth and Families Jessica Frederick. Photos submitted by St. Luke’s Episocpal Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will be celebrating the generous ...

IT’S TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM. THE CLASSIC HOLIDAY POEM, “A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS” WAS FIRST PUBLISH ED ON DECEMBER 23, 1823. THIS WELL-LOVED POEM ...

When I was growing up in a very rural part of northern Nebraska, I don’t remember my family doing acts of charity. Sure, they would take meals to a family at the time of a death or go help the ...

JERSEYVILLE — Many Jerseyville businesses will celebrate the holidays with Saint Nicholas on Saturday, Dec. 6. Both the Redbird Deli, located at 109 S. State Street, and Jerseyville Public Library, ...

Before the iconic red suit and the sleigh, the real St. Nicholas lived and died in ancient Lycia, modern-day Antalya Province, Türkiye. St. Nick didn’t grow up with reindeer. He grew up walking among ...