complete with visiting wise men, curious onlookers, a musician who appears to be waiting for the rest of the band to arrive, and an active farm with lots of chickens and cats. (Emma Lee/WHYY) A ...

An annual exhibit of dozens of Nativity scenes from around the world returns ... Figures of the holy family, shepherds, wise men, angels and assorted animals are arranged nearby.

Historians say the first nativity scene was staged in 1223 by St. Francis ... There, we read about the three magi, also referred to as “Wise Men” or “Kings.” These men arrived in Jerusalem ...

The scenes are a material representation of the birth of Jesus and the arrival of the Three Kings, or Wise Men. The Tico Times visited a woman who has a collection of 94 different nativity sets from ...

Every year, the faithful at Seaside Chapel build a live Nativity scene with all the Biblical trimmings, detailed down to wise men with robes pulled over their bluejeans, Roman soldiers wearing ...

Many traditional Nativity scenes aren’t strictly historically ... that the Bible doesn’t say there were three wise men, and that those wise men were not literally kings. But this kind of ...

How do you feel about having live camels as a part of a nativity ... The scene displays much more than camels — it also depicts the Holy Family with Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus in a rustic stable, ...

(NBC4 Photo/Aaron Burd) The birth of Jesus as depicted in a nativity scene in Columbus. (NBC4 Photo/Aaron Burd) The Wise Men as depicted in a nativity scene in Columbus. (NBC4 Photo/Aaron Burd ...

(RNS) — Though they aren't mentioned in the Bible Christmas story, live animals have been part of nativity scenes since the ... some camels brought by the wise men, as humorous sidekicks who ...

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The Knitoholics made the bollard covers for Weymouth harbourside, depicting key characters from the nativity story including Mary, Joseph, the donkey, the shepherd and the three wise men.