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 ...

“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 ...

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.

The refurbished Nativity scene went up in the east ... the baby Jesus won’t be placed in the manger until local parishioners gather for midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. The display is scheduled ...

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 ...

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 ...