Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patara, birthplace of St Nicholas, is a wide-open sprawl of ruins framed by farmland and dunes in Türkiye. Georg Knoll/laif, Redux ...

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — Many people and famous Christmas songs refer to Santa Claus as Saint Nicholas, or St. Nick for short — but he’s far from the only figure in history to have that title. There was ...

When you think of St. Nicholas, you probably think of a bearded man in a red coat in a sleigh delivering presents on Christmas Eve with his reindeer. St. Nicholas was indeed a real person in history, ...

Santa Claus, Kris Kringle, Old Saint Nick... Regardless of what you call him, everybody knows the round-bellied, white-bearded man in red who flies through the sky each year on Christmas Eve, ...

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 ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — A Northern Virginia church is offering visitors a unique Christmas experience — the chance to see what they believe is an actual relic of the real Saint Nicholas, the historical ...

As Father Nicholas Kasemeotes gestured toward the iconography on the sanctuary wall of Holy Anargyroi Greek Orthodox Church, a slight smile crossed his face when he came to the image of a bearded old ...

Experts also believe they know where the saint's tomb would have originally stood within the church. A fresco of Jesus in St. Nicholas Church in Demre, Turkey, where experts believe St. Nicholas's ...

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 ...