According to historical sources, Santa Claus, also known as St. Nicholas, was born around 280 A.D. in the ancient Lycian city of Patara, located on the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Turkey.

he is our subject here. But before we present the true story of "Santa Claus" let us list some of the other Saint Nicholases: St. Nicholas of Flüe, Patron of Switzerland; St. Nicholas of ...

Even in death, there is a Byzantine legend of St. Nicholas coming back down to earth to get grain to feed the hungry before ...

but artists still occasionally tweaked the color of Santa's robes or the amount of girth they added around the middle. In 1822, American poet Clement Clarke Moore wrote a poem for his daughters about ...

The grave of the figure who inspired Santa Claus has been unearthed in Turkey. Archaeologists recently discovered the original burial place of St. Nicholas underneath a church in the country's ...

St. Nicholas, as it turns out ... By the late 1800s, Americans were in thrall to a sentimentalized Santa Claus that was in large part the creation of the illustrator-cartoonist Thomas Nast.

Various factors are at play when it comes to the decision of a burial place for a pope. Pope Francis has chosen the Basilica ...

Trump listened again and chuckled before saying, "Well, you just enjoy… Father Christmas, Père Noël, St. Nicholas, Babbo Natale, Santa Claus: The jolly old man with a white beard is an ...