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  • There is no evidence that the death of his father from plague—hardly unusual at the time—scarred him for life, yet the gloomy "Adoration of the Shepherds" 1609, painted over 30 years later in Sicily, is not just the "most tragic" of Nativities, according to Mr. Graham-Dixon, but "an allegory of his own emergence into the dark world of Milan under plague in the 1570s."

    The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011

  • As well as the church he ran an eponymous parochial school of eight grades—an oasis of enlightenment in the wasteland of Ascensions, Nativities, Blessed Sacraments and Our Ladies of Unbearable Maternal Grief, where retrograde clergy routinely hammered on the bodies and minds of the children entrusted to their care.

    Last Words George Carlin 2009

  • Thanks to Sara, who has the funniest site I've seen in a good long while make sure to check out the Cavalcade of Bad Nativities as well as her sermons, here's an image I didn't even know could possibly exist.

    Yeah, but can he make a rock so heavy he can't lift it? Emma Goldman 2005

  • Thanks to Sara, who has the funniest site I've seen in a good long while make sure to check out the Cavalcade of Bad Nativities as well as her sermons, here's an image I didn't even know could possibly exist.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Emma Goldman 2005

  • On the rear wall, "he knew his voice changed as he got to the rear wall," is an early Van Zeller, one of his most beautiful Nativities.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • On the rear wall, "he knew his voice changed as he got to the rear wall," is an early Van Zeller, one of his most beautiful Nativities.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Other symbolic details included in Nativities are angels singing, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will” usually written in Latin on banners surrounding them.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

  • The focus of all Nativities is the infant Christ, with Mary and Joseph as secondary figures.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

  • Other symbolic details included in Nativities are angels singing, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will” usually written in Latin on banners surrounding them.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

  • The focus of all Nativities is the infant Christ, with Mary and Joseph as secondary figures.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

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