A poor father had no way to care for his three daughters, until bags of gold began to appear through the window in the middle of the night. This is the most famous story of Saint Nicholas, the saint who inspired Santa Claus.

On a quiet night in Bethlehem, the Son of God is born as a tiny baby. Angels bring the good news to shepherds, and the Savior of the world sleeps in a manger.

On the day after Christmas a king walks out into deep snow with his page to carry supper to a poor man, and his footprints warm the way.

In a seaside town in Sicily, a girl whose name meant light gave away everything she had and became the saint of Advent candles.

From a small town beside the sea all the way to your house, the name of one kind bishop took a very long journey and came back wearing new clothes.

In a small Austrian village by the river, a young priest brings a poem he has kept for two years and asks a schoolmaster for a tune by nightfall.

In a house full of children in Hamburg, a pastor hangs a wheel of candles from the ceiling so the wait for Christmas can be seen, one day at a time.

On a quiet night in Bethlehem, the ox, the donkey and the sheep grow still around the manger so the baby can sleep.

In a plain little house in Nazareth, a young woman is visited by an angel and hears a request only she could answer.

A young fir in the woods thought only of growing tall and getting away. Andersen tells what he discovered when his wish finally came true.

One Christmas night, in a village high on an Italian hillside, Saint Francis wanted to see Bethlehem with his own two eyes.

An angel wakes Joseph in the middle of the night. The family must leave at once, cross the desert, and live for years in a foreign land.

After the Holy Family slipped away, Bethlehem was left alone before the fear of a king. The Church has never forgotten the children of that village.

On the last evening of the year a barefoot girl crosses the city with her matches. Every match she strikes holds a picture inside it.

Forty days after Christmas, Mary and Joseph carry the child up to the Temple. An old man who waited all his life knows him at once.

A star lights up the sky and goes on ahead of the wise men, night after night, until it stops above the place where the child is.

Mary crosses the hill country to help an elderly cousin, and their meeting becomes the oldest song of Christmas.