The Feast of St. Nicholas, fondly referred to by many across the region as St. Nick's Day, takes place annually Dec. 6. Though the holiday involves stockings and small gifts, it is separate from ...

Through the prayers of St. Nicholas, may the Lord grant all of us this joy! St. Elias Church in Cherkizova, Moscow Metropolitan Nicholai (Yarushevich) Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, No. 5, 1955 ...

St. Nicholas' feast day is Dec. 6. One of the most famous stories of his generosity says that he threw bags of gold through an open window in the house of a poor man to serve as dowry for the man ...

St. Nicholas was named a saint by the church on Dec. 6, which is the same day he is believed to have died in 343 A.D. The day is celebrated as a feast day.

It was later venerated in a grand pilgrimage between the two feast days of Saint Nicholas: 6 December (19 December in the Russian calendar) and 8 May (21 May in the Russian Orthodox Church’s ...

ROME, December 20. /TASS/. The traditional Feast of St. Nicholas under the Orthodox calendar was celebrated in the Italian city of Bari (Apulia), where relics of St. Nicholas are kept and the ...

Black Pete is part and parcel of the feast of Saint Nicholas. Nicholas of Myra, Roman Catholic patron saint of children, sailors and prostitutes, has in some Protestant countries metamorphosed into ...

The Feast of St. Nicholas is on Sunday, but Madalyn Bauer, principal at the school, said the elementary and Montessori school were celebrating a little early.