This evening (5 December) signifies the Sinterklaas evening with the following day celebrated as the Feast of Sinterklaas for Dutch people in the Netherlands, Belgium and around the world.

mainly because most stopped celebrating the Feast of Saint Nicholas on his holy day of December 6th. The second figure of interest in these early years is Sinterklaas, hailing from Belgium and The ...

Sant Nikolas in German or Sinterklaas in Dutch. It led me to reminisce how I anticipated this feast as a child. We would set our shoes by ...

Sinterklaas comes on Dec. 6 as a bringer of gifts and good news, especially to younger folk, but also to us more mature beings. We remember him as the great-grandfather of another ...