It's always good to hear from you, and I'm delighted that I can share some of my correspondence on these pages. Crèche Enthusiast Michelle Martin asked me about church music in San Francisco, where's she's going to be visiting. And her question brought to my mind a beautiful service I once attended at a Russian Orthodox church that bordered Golden Gate Park. I can still remember how moving it was to be hearing those angelic hymns, and what ...
The Christmas Manger Set is an ideal nativity for a child: all the pieces are cut out, of sturdy cardboard, that easily fit into cut-out tabs. While we're on the subject of children and nativities (For Auld Land Syne) I wanted to share with you a re-issue of an old favorite. Its red box that houses the Christmas Manger Set provides for easy storage, and announces: "It Tells the Christmas Story;" "The Christmas Story in beautiful cut-out scenes ...
When the ancient 12th Century Spanish Monastery of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, was dismantled — stone by stone — and brought to Miami, so was this marble Nativity… An encore of the beautiful sculpted relief panel to the accompaniment of melodious Gregorian Chant. The cloister, pierced by arches supported on slender columns, provided the monks with a quiet space to walk and meditate. At first, it was Benjamin who asked to see more of St. Bernard de Clairvaux ...
A 1920 vintage nativity, fresh out of the box from Germany, features soft colors, deep embossing — and 88 years worth of nostalgia? It seems Saying “Goodbye” — Louis Dausse of Paper Models International hit a chord, because I've been hearing from enthusiasts who were touched by the Dausses' adieu after 35 years in the paper model business. You also found in their story much you could relate to. Carolyn Hobbes laments that "The Internet is taking over, [and] paper ...
The predella of the altar of the Blessed Virgin of St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Dyersville, Iowa, is adorned by polychrome wood carvings of the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, and the Finding of the boy Jesus at the Temple.A testament to faith and art — a magnificent Gothic Basilica set amidst the corn fields of Iowa One expects to see cornfields and rolling hills in Iowa — but a Basilica? Yet, that's what the small sign on Highway ...
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