Tours available Docent-led tours of Maxo Vanka's murals at St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Croatian Church in Millvale are provided by The Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka at 11 a ...

Two hundred sixty-six popes have led the Roman Catholic Church since Jesus of Nazareth founded it around A.D. 33. But how did they get the job? And what did it lead them to do? Many of the answers ...

He would pray silently before the beloved Byzantine icon of the Virgin ... including Popes Sixtus V, Nicholas IV, and Clement VIII as well as the architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini who ...

Julie Olthoff, R-Crown Point. The certificate presented ... Romanians as the past president and administrator of St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church in East Chicago. He also supervised health ...

AMSTERDAM - St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church has kept its doors open through the power of good food. Parishioners at the small congregation in Amsterdam help to make and sell traditional ...

(SUBMITTED PHOTO) Parishioners from St. Michael and St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic churches sing Slavic carols. (SUBMITTED PHOTO) Anne Victoria Nasevich, violin soloist, plays an interlude of ...

No written records of Nicholas exist except those dating 200 years after his death. In medieval times, all sorts of legends sprang up surrounding St. Nicholas. The most famous one is of the man ...

After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, announced this week that her team has found a sarcophagus that may contain ...

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern ...

While it's not celebrated nationwide, St. Nicholas Day holds a special place for German and Dutch communities across the U.S. Festivities and traditions are held in various cities, including in ...

Records have shown that St Nicholas was buried at the church built in his name, but his body's exact whereabouts have always been a mystery. The Byzantine church built over the foundation was a ...

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 ...