Christ-Child

One Christmas night the Christ-Child appeared to him.

Old Calendar: St. Lawrence Justinian Argent 2006

Brewer gives many of the churchly legends in which the Christ-Child appears to men and women upon earth, either in the arms of the Virgin, as he came to St. Agnes of Monte Pulciano and to Jeanne Marie de Maille, or as a glorious child, in which form he appeared alone to St. Alexander and Quirinus the tribune, in the reign of Hadrian; to St. Andrew

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Christ-Child was hungered and you gave him meat, -- a stranger and you took Him in.

Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

(_In a low ringing voice that thrills like the call of a trumpet_) Go up, my son, -- fear not -- The Christ-Child waits for all!

Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

The Saint, half kneeling, stretches forward to the vision of the Christ-Child, which descends in a glory of cherubim toward him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

Folk-stories and churchly legends tell us that the Christ-Child still walks the earth, and appears unto the saints and sinners of this world.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Finally, as Christ sums up all that is divine in men, so does the Christ-Child sum up all that is God - like in the child.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Among the animals which folk-thought has brought into connection with the Christ-Child is the horse.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Among the rude peasantry of Catholic Europe belief in the visitations of the Christ-Child lingers, especially at the season of His birth.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

When, like Simeon the seer with the Christ-Child in his arms, a man feels that for him life has said its last word and shown its last wonder and uttered its last benediction, the desire for rest is a pure and spiritually normal thing; it is just the soul's gaze turned upward where beyond these toils

The Threshold Grace Percy C. Ainsworth