This year marks the 800th anniversary of the hallowed Christmas Eve in 1223 ... as did the term "Nativity scene," which might as easily also describe a painting or a fresco. The late Latin word ...

“Silent Night” is one of the most popular Christmas hymns ... Countless paintings hang in museums showing the manger scene as peaceful, with Mary gazing beatifically at her calm, still ...

The manger scene has a special place near the Christmas tree or in another place where family members can reflect and pray during the Christmas season. It is blessed each year on Christmas eve or ...

At that Christmas in Greccio, when St. Francis set up the manger scene in church for the first time and, as a deacon, preached that Christmas Mass, he held the figure of the Christ child in his ...

Detail of the nativity scene in St ... exploiters”. Last Christmas five English women, members of Christian Climate Action, stood in front of a fifteenth-century painting by Filippino Lippi ...

in which the baby is added on Christmas Eve night to mark the moment of Jesus’s birth. The manger scene had only been installed in full for the purposes of demonstration during the public unveiling.

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas ... scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St ...

Vatican's Keffiyeh Nativity Scene Raises Eyebrows ... for all the Vatican’s Christmas decorations this year, which include various depictions of the manger in a Bethlehem stable where Jesus ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that ... to only appear in the manger on Christmas Eve.