It’s easy to imagine Saint Nicholas as just as mythical as the modern-day Santa Claus -- but he actually was a real person.

This Christmas, many children welcomed a familiar visitor – a jolly man in a red suit and a sleigh full of gifts. But the ...

All those are good deeds, but one tale of St. Nick is a great deed that stands head and shoulders above the others; St. Nicholas, it is said, resurrected three children who had been murdered, chopped ...

Behind the festive songs and red suit lies a real story. Santa Claus began as Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century bishop known ...

Join ciLiving for a festive and educational holiday segment! Joyce and John from Dine with a Doc stop by to share the surprising and heartwarming history of Santa Claus — from Saint Nicholas to the ...

Certain legendary figures are actually rooted in history, and Saint Nicholas, otherwise known as Santa Claus, is one of them.

Coca-Cola may have helped popularize Santa's look, but his modern image was already taking shape long before the soft drink ...

If you're still having doubts, you don't have to take our word for it. Just ask Santa if you can give it a gentle tug the ...

St. Nicholas (or simply St. Nick), Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas. But what is Santa’s “backstory’?

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

Seventy years ago, a wrong number prompted the U.S. Air Force to begin issuing reports of St. Nick’s progress on Christmas ...

When the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center became NORAD in 1958, the Santa tracker was established. Over the past seven decades, the tracker has only become more accessible. The ...