Suleyman Topcu put up the statue in the Mediterranean town of Demre to honor its favorite son — St. Nicholas, the inspiration for the Santa legend. Some residents are horrified, however ...

One such rumor states that St. Nicholas' remains are located in a ruined church in an abandoned medieval town near ... is surrounded by statues of St. Nicholas. Archaeologists first discovered ...

Devotion to St. Nicholas — also referred to as St. Nick — spread during the Middle Ages across Europe and he became a favorite subject for medieval artists and liturgical plays, according to ...

The Byzantine church built over the foundation was a place of worship for Orthodox Christians between the 5th and 12th centuries and was surrounded by statues of St Nicholas. It was also added to ...

The Dec. 6 Feast of St. Nicholas became a popular tradition during the medieval period, particularly in Germany and German-speaking countries. St. Nicholas Day is the feast day of St. Nicholas ...

it was a huge deal for a medieval city to have a powerful and highly visible saint. It meant that you were going to have a huge amount of pilgrim traffic. And in particular, St. Nicholas was the ...

The Dec. 6 Feast of St. Nicholas became a popular tradition during the medieval period, particularly in Germany and German-speaking countries. St. Nicholas Day is the feast day of St. Nicholas ...

Devotion to St. Nicholas — also referred to as St. Nick — spread during the Middle Ages across Europe and he became a favorite subject for medieval artists and liturgical plays, according to ...

The white-bearded Christian saint whose acts of generosity inspired America’s secular Santa Claus figure is known worldwide — but Saint Nicholas' origin story is not.The legends surrounding ...