Italians will be able to add a whiff of political scandal to their Christmas nativity scenes this year – carved wooden figurines of Patrizia D'Addario, the call girl who claims to have slept ...

Nativity figurines carved by Alber Zakharia's late father (left) and grandfather (right) in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Courtney Mares.

A school handyman has carved a complete Nativity scene from old classroom desks. 04 December 2008 • 5:02pm The navtivity figures were made at Nicholas Breakspear School in St Albans ...

Vatican City, Oct 29, 2022 / 08:55 am. For Christmas 2022, the Vatican has commissioned a nativity scene made of life-sized figures hand carved out of alpine cedar trees.

The cathedral’s beautiful nativity, hand-carved in Italy decades ago, is made up of 18 figures in a stable, including the baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph surrounded by the wise men, shepherds, a ...

One of Puerto Rico’s leading folk arts is the making of wooden santos, small votive statues, beautifully carved out of cedar, laurel and other local woods, representing the Nativity, Crucifixion ...

Classic Nativity Set. C lassic nativity sets never go out of style. An ornate nativity feels just at home on your hearth today as it would 50 years ago.Besides all the elegant figures and rustic ...

This is the hand-carved Nativity at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston that Father Daniel Greenleaf purchased in Bethlehem last year. And had some relatively short-lived buyer’s ...

A hand-carved Italian Nativity scene on display at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Wednesday, December 23, 2020. The Nativity, with figures of the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph ...

Joining them is a figure of St. Francis that appears to be overlooking this Nativity scene. One of the smallest crèches, from Mexico, is carved of onyx that resembles a light green alabaster.

Part of a series of scenes from a collection titled “Nativity of Bethlehem 2024,” the biblical tableau shows figures of the holy family carved from olive wood while baby Jesus lies atop a ...

As Christmas pilgrims pore over the intricately carved Nativity scenes in Bethlehem shop windows, few pause to consider that some of the wood used comes from olive trees older than the events of ...