OPINION - It is the Christmas meme of memes, but not like you know it: all hail the Nativity, invented by St Francis
Dec 21, 2023
2 minutes
THE crib is 800 years old. That’s right, the scene with ox, ass and manger wasn’t always a thing. It was the genius idea of St Francis of Assisi, who had returned from the Holy Land and thought to himself that the landscape around Greccio, near Assisi, was really like what he’d, with all the rocks and things.
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