Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside, Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Alberto Gori carries an olive-wood Christ child, accompanied by priests and deacons with swinging censers, acolytes and choir boys with long, flickering candles. The procession makes its way down into the Cave of the Nativity beneath the church, and there the figure...
This swaddled image lying in the damp, cramped cavern where Jesus may actually have been born is the center and model of numberless Nativity scenes all over the world. Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox or sectarian, there are crèches today almost everywhere there are Christians. There are Nativities as sumptuous...
In the Jungle. There are mechanical crèches, including that of the local St. Vincent de Paul Society in Beirut, Lebanon, which is 35 ft. by 23 ft., with foot-high Wise Men, shepherds, animals moving in opposite directions against a papier-mâché background of Judea...
There are cheap cardboard crèches, turned out by the thousands in busy factories, and there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling...
The Gospel does not tell how many Wise Men there were; according to St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine there were twelve, but tradition soon narrowed them to three-presumably because of the three gifts they brought. As far back as the and century, the church assigned symbolical meaning to the...