Turkish researchers claim they’ve located the tomb of St. Nicholas, the real-life figure who inspired Santa Claus, under a 5th-century church in Turkey. While it’s long been known that St. Nick was ...

Conspiracy theorists will tell you that Valentine’s is a date created by big corporations to make people spend money on a day that is not based on a real person or events. The amount of money made in ...

Hagiography, the study of the lives of holy men and women, can be a daunting field. One must distinguish between facts that are absolutely true, data that is probably true, stories that are possibly ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Yes, the commercialization of Christmas has gotten out of hand. And, yes, that dims the message of Christ giving himself to the world. The proof can be seen in the official ...

The story of how St. Nicholas became the red-suited chimney hopper we know as Santa is fascinating in its own right. But the final chapter of the holy man's own story is equally intriguing—and ...

Outside an ancient church in Rivotorto, a village in rural Umbria, the director of London’s National Gallery Gabriele Finaldi is telling a group of journalists (including your own agnostic ...

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 ...

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