A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...

The conception of St. Nicholas was radically changed by the appearance of the poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (“ ’Twas the night before Christmas”) in the Troy (New York) Sentinel in 1823.

The triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

Images of St. Nicholas vary considerably ... when Bibles were burned and priests made to renounce Christianity or face execution. Nicholas defied these edicts and spent years in prison before ...

And there it is, along with Hosius and Cecilian and Donnus and Vincentius and Menophantes — the other name we associate with Christmas: Saint Nicholas. At the very beginning of Christianity ...

Pope Leo XIV’s profound devotion to St. Nicholas of Tolentine not only reveals his Augustinian roots but also the soul of a pastor.

Athenogenes, bishop of Petra in the late 500s, is the last recorded Christian leader of the city, once home to more than 20,000. The original Saint Nicholas has been spurned by his own hometown.

Today marks St. Nicholas Day, a celebration honoring Saint Nicholas of Myra, a 4th-century Christian bishop known for his generosity and kindness. Observed annually on December 6, this day carries ...

Nicholas was an early Christian bishop born in the third century ... especially in the Russian Orthodox Church. The location of St. Nicholas’ mortal remains is already a matter of some ...

Saint Nicholas was born in Lycia in Asia Minor ... and only released when Constantine the Great came to power and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.