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A Scrooge-like Christmas-abhoring man, Raúl, is tasked to audit a Turrón-making factory in a remote Christmas-loving village, where he also faces the prospect of sharing a roof with Paula, the local teacher, hellbent on staging the largest living nativity scene ever. [1] [2]
In the autonomous Spanish community of Catalonia, the pessebre, or the nativity scene, would feature all the usual characters with one addition: a person wearing a traditional red-colored ...
The Mystical Nativity or Adoration in the Forest was painted by Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 – 1469) around 1459 as the altarpiece for the Magi Chapel in the new Palazzo Medici in Florence. [1] It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin , [ 2 ] with a copy by another artist now hanging in the chapel. [ 3 ]
Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The practice of putting up special decorations at Christmas has a long history. In the 15th century, it was recorded that in London, it was the custom at Christmas for every house and all the parish churches to be "decked with holm, ivy, bays, and whatsoever the season of the year afforded to be green". [4]
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Dec. 6—NEW HOLLAND, S.D. — With mild December temperatures predicted for this weekend, the conditions should be perfect as the New Holland Christian Reformed Church brings the Christmas story ...
Nicholas was a 4th-century Greek bishop of Myra, a city in the Roman province of Lycia, whose ruins are 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from modern Demre in southwest Turkey. [ 178 ] [ 179 ] Among other saintly attributes, he was noted for the care of children, generosity, and the giving of gifts.
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 ...