Tag: St. Nicholas

Hill-Murray School honors St. Nicholas with learning center bearing his name
Students at Hill-Murray School in Maplewood won’t be commemorating St. Nicholas Day Dec. 6 with shoe-filled candy, a Catholic tradition. Instead, they’ll be diving deeper into who St. Nicholas was as a person — in particular, his care for children — with the blessing of a new mural in the school’s Nicholas Center.

Father Joseph temporarily removed from ministry following allegation
Father Thomas Joseph, outgoing pastor of St. Nicholas in Carver, was temporarily removed from ministry because law enforcement is investigating him for criminal conduct involving an adult.

Indiana town embodies Santa Claus and his spirit of love, peace, joy
Belief in that iconic Christmas figure, the rotund merry man with a bag full of presents, inspires thousands of children to write letters addressed to “Santa Claus” each year.

Many hands create beautiful landscape at St. Nicholas in Carver
Parishioners hopes the garden will be an educational and spiritually meaningful space for all visitors, regardless of background or belief.

Knights of Columbus-built house in Lonsdale benefits area Catholic school, education center
Immaculate Conception’s Knights of Columbus council partnered with the St. Nicholas in Elko New Market Knights to complete a house for charity June 10. The sale of the 2,300-square-foot, 4-bedroom home in Lonsdale closed June 14, and $100,000 of revenue will help Holy Cross School and the Catholic Education Center in Webster.

A St. Nick gift of thanks for longtime Catholic Charities supporter Welsh
Catholic Charities touched Tim Welsh’s life early when he was adopted as a baby by a Washington D.C. area family through the organization’s infant home in 1966. He reconnected with Catholic Charities years later from a phone call he received in the late 1990s while working in the Twin Cities with McKinsey and Company, a business consulting firm.

St. Nicholas Fun Day
Jesuit Father Joseph Weiss, pastor of St. Thomas More parish in St. Paul, dressed as St. Nicholas Dec. 6 for a special day of activities for preschoolers and a visit to K-8 students at the parish school.

A modern heir to St. Nicholas
Father Joseph Marquis, not surprisingly, knows all about Christmas. But — and this is the part that might surprise you — he knows all about Santa Claus, too.

St. Nick: Patron of Christmas gift-giving
Dec. 6 is the feast day of St. Nicholas (c. 280 – 345 A.D.), one of the most popular saints for Advent and Christmas. St. Nicholas, or St. Nick as he is often called, is the inspiration behind Santa Claus and a big reason we exchange gifts at Christmastime.

Father Joseph on the renovation of St. Nicholas church
Father Thomas Joseph shares his reflections on the renovation of St. Nicholas church
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