The British Broadcasting Corporation The donkey taking centre stage in Rocester Listen on Sounds: Hear from the cast of Rocester’s nativity walk, which includes a live donkey A three-year-old ...

Knitted nativity figures including Mary, Joseph, a donkey and the angel Gabriel have been offering commuters "signs of the Christmas story" throughout December. The touring miniature figures ...

Joining Mary, Joseph and the Christ child ... lets them pet her and love on her." Appearing in a Nativity production is appropriate for the donkey, "because her ancestors were witnesses to the ...

It’s a tale we see displayed every Christmas season on lawns and mantels around the world in nativity scenes. But what if we saw that from another perspective? Like, say, the little donkey ...

Jerzy Skolimowski knew he wanted an animal as a lead character, but it was only when he spotted a donkey — standing ... thanks to one of the “living” nativity scenes that many villages ...

While Luke 2:7 states that Mary “gave birth to her ... The bed is flanked by an ox and a donkey. Some proponents of including these animals in nativity scenes quote Isaiah 1:3: “The ox knoweth ...

In addition to the figures of Mary, Joseph, St. Francis and the traditional ox and donkey, the 13th-century mayor of Greccio who helped organize the first Nativity scene, Giovanni Velita ...

In St. Mary Major’s Sistine chapel, where the Nativity scene is located ... he found a manger full of hay, an ox, and a donkey,” the pope wrote. “All those present experienced a new and ...

A three-year-old donkey is this year’s star attraction in a Staffordshire village nativity walk after last year’s animal issues. Mary, Joseph, their donkey and a procession of more than 200 ...