Remarkable new high-tech images reveal the face of the real-life bishop who inspired the concept of Santa Claus — more than 1,700 years after he first made Christmas merry and bright.

One part of the celebration was giving each other gifts," The Boston Public Library’s article on the origin of Christmas says. Santa Claus is inspired by a real monk, named Nicholas, who was ...

Yes; Saint Nicholas, whose feast day is observed by the Church on December sixth, is the great and good Saint who first acted the part of Santa Claus. How it happened is a real Christmas story of ...

"When children start putting together in their minds that Santa Claus may not be real, they'll ask questions ... if we are really the ones who buy his Christmas presents. We made a joke of ...

It wasn’t the first time fiction had caused real-life confusion about the ... a good chance those French tourists popped to the Santa Claus Christmas Store. Managed by Heather Osborne, at ...