As part of his preparations, Francis “made ready a manger, and bade hay ... placed in separate barbed-wire cages in their outdoor Nativity scene. These displays, which call attention to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1968, a group of American artists led by Joey Skaggs constructed a Vietnamese Nativity scene in Central Park, with a Vietnamese Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in a manger covered with bamboo ...

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 ...