The family had just sailed to Vyshgorod to celebrate the feast day of St. Boris and St. Gleb. Grieving over their drowned baby, the parents prayed to St. Nicholas to perform a miracle. The next ...

“St. Nicholas is a little hard to say. Children started simplifying it to Santa Claus.” The feast day of St. Nicholas, Dec. 6, was celebrated by the Dutch as a gift-giving day when children ...

(Gary Wayne Gilbert) July 31 is the feast day of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, who died on that date in 1556. A Basque courtier and soldier, Inigo de Loyola was gravely ...

St. Patrick's Day, observed on March 17, has transitioned from a feast day in Ireland to a widely celebrated holiday in the United States. The holiday commemorates St. Patrick, the patron saint of ...

Sacred artefacts along with their certificates of authenticity and provenance, will be returned to the Cathedral of Saint ...

Some legends suggest that St. Nicholas would return on his feast day, dressed in a red bishop's robe. He'd deliver sweets and presents to good children and coal and potatoes to bad children ...