is actually the main day of gift-giving and merrymaking for the holiday season, to ensure that December 25th remains all about the birth of the Christian Messiah. Whether or not Saint Nicholas ...

It is hard to imagine the cheery, plump version of Santa Claus emerged from Saint ... feast day of St. Boris and St. Gleb. Grieving over their drowned baby, the parents prayed to St. Nicholas ...

The site became a major destination for pilgrims after sailors from Bari brought Saint Nicholas’s relics there from his tomb at Myra in modern-day Turkey in 1087. At Myra, his tomb had already ...