UPDATED: December 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM CST On quiet nights during the Christmas season, Ed O’Malley enjoys visiting the Nativity scene he helps set up every year in an Arlington Heights park.

In the early 13th century, it was St Francis of Assisi — an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar, who came up with the idea of a live depiction of the nativity scene. There were, however ...

Night of Nativity, 3428 S. Lincoln Drive: An inflatable Nativity scene surrounded by tasteful lights. Frosty Takeover, 915 W. 12th Ave.: Snowman blow molds brighten the block.

In 1291, Pope Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, ordered that a permanent Nativity scene be erected at Santa Maria Maggiore, the largest church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Rome.

Chesna is a carpenter who says he's been helping setup the Nativity scene for the past 20 years. He said when people experience the story of Christmas in Daley Plaza, he wants them to walk away ...

“The nativity scene was made over 60 years ago,” Kenney said. “It started with Gordon Keith, who was a very famous person in Columbus, especially around the holidays.

A church nativity scene which features two mothers of the Baby Jesus, instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph figurines, has sparked anger among conservative Catholics and politicians in Italy.

Year-round, audiences can view more than a hundred nativity scenes featuring over 2,000 figurines from various countries at the International Museum of Nativity Scene Art in Málaga, Spain.

My family’s Nativity scene, like so many others that will appear during the holiday season, has some notable inaccuracies. It portrays a fair-skinned holy family, not a Middle Eastern one.