Away in a manger ... s handwriting spells out “NATIVITY” on a masking tape label stuck to a red and green paneled box that distinguishes the home of the Nativity scene characters from that ...

Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on ...

The scene in St. Peter’s Square depicts not only Mary and Joseph standing beside the manger, but also St. Francis of Assisi, who organized the first Nativity scene in a cave in the Italian ...

It is literally a nativity scene but all the figures are the characters portrayed as lobsters. Instead of a manger, all of the figures are situated within a lobster trap. Rosemary Quantick ...

Christmas 2023 marks 800 years since St. Francis of Assisi staged the first manger scene in the hill town of Greccio, about 50 miles north of Rome. Pope Francis visits the Nativity scene in St ...

Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby Jesus and his family, shepherds, the three wise men believed to have visited Jesus ...

The first known Nativity ... a manger full of hay, an ox, and a donkey,” the pope wrote. “All those present experienced a new and indescribable joy in the presence of the Christmas scene.

The Christmas 2023 Nativity scene at the Vatican will evoke the first-ever live manger, which was created by St. Francis of Assisi in Italy in the 1200s, the Vatican said Monday. The Vatican’s ...