In this Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 file photo, Christian actors play the parts of Joseph and Mary during a re-enactment of a Nativity scene of the birth ... “We have no idea about the exact ages of either ...

the largest church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Rome. Nativity imagery dominated Renaissance art. This first living Nativity scene – which was famously depicted by Italian Renaissance painter ...

By setting the Nativity ... Mary and Joseph adore the infant Jesus, joined by two midwives who, traditionally, were the first to behold the newborn Saviour – apart, of course, from the Virgin ...

On its website, the church shared 18 Nativity images for members to retrieve ... Italian artist Carlo Maratta from the 1650s of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child — except that someone ...

A sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus has been destroyed ... Johann Hintermaier, episcopal vicar for education, art and culture, apologized to those whom the piece may ...

The art project was meant to protest the fact ... sugar and other junk food. In the nativity, the Virgin Mary sits in a wheelchair with a sign draped around her neck reading, "the birth of diabetes." ...

For two-year-old Emilia Wadgymar, the real stars of the season are the Virgin ... nativity this year to be really big. Emilia didn't even notice the Santa train. She started yelling, ‘Mary!