🖼️ ArtAges 6–7
The Christmas crèche
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A small nativity set out at home in December — Joseph, Mary, the infant, the shepherds and their lamb, the wise men placed a little farther off until Epiphany. St. Francis built the first one at Greccio in 1223. The figures live in a child's hands for a month.
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