There are many fond memories and cherished, time-honored traditions, rituals and symbols that mark this time of the year -- the symbols of the Christmas tree, the ritual of decorating it, the ...

Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with ... went forth out of the cave and entering a stable, placed the child in the stall, and ...

which had been turned into a hand-crafted Nativity scene, including a stable and a manger. Karina said that the idea for the event came to the family as they approached the holiday season ...

In 1950, the Franciscans at St. Boniface started presenting their living Nativity scene ... touches were shepherds moving around the stable scene, and by a pair of live sheep loaned by the ...

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. — Every Christmas season, Christians honor the birth of Jesus by putting up Nativity scenes. The Gospels record the first visitors to the stable as humble shepherds.

which include various depictions of the manger in a Bethlehem stable where Jesus is said to have been born. This year, the Nativity scenes were made by Bethlehem-based artisans. Representatives of ...