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That first nacimiento was placed inside a cave in Greccio, Italy, in 1223, to later become a well established tradition in that country.
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That first nacimiento was placed inside a cave in Greccio, Italy, in 1223, to later become a well established tradition in that country.
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St Francis of Assisi was so taken by the mystery of the Incarnation that he wanted to present it anew at Greccio in the living Nativity scene, thus beginning an old, popular tradition that still retains its value for evangelization today.
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St Francis of Assisi was so taken by the mystery of the Incarnation that he wanted to present it anew at Greccio in the living Nativity scene, thus beginning an old, popular tradition that still retains its value for evangelization today.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Three years later, he commissioned an inanimate nativity and had it erected in a cave near Greccio, Italy where he held Christmas Eve mass.
Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008
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Three years later, he commissioned an inanimate nativity and had it erected in a cave near Greccio, Italy where he held Christmas Eve mass.
Decking the Halls Joanna Waugh 2008
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Some believe that the tradition of creating Nativity scenes originated with St. Francis of Assisi in 1223, when he constructed a nativity scene out of straw in a cave in Greccio in central Italy and used the scene as the site of his Christmas Eve mass.
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The Christian nativity scene, also known as a crib, crèche or presepe, is thought to have been created by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th century in Greccio, a small town north of Rome.
The Art of Nativity: 2007
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Some believe that the tradition of creating Nativity scenes originated with St. Francis of Assisi in 1223, when he constructed a nativity scene out of straw in a cave in Greccio in central Italy and used the scene as the site of his Christmas Eve mass.
Roman Holidays: No Room at the Inn at eternallycool.net 2007
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Assisi, who in the year 1224 celebrated Christmas at Greccio | 106 | with
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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