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A Carillos Nacimiento
An ornate, colorful, wooden manger houses a Southwest Nativity by gifted Santa Fe artist Charles Carillos. An angel (shown at left), crowned by a gold halo, folds his arms in devout reverance.
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Nacimientos Mexicanos
By Judith Davis
We're delighted to feature on our pages Judith Davis, Vice President of the Friends of the Creche (a society dedicated to the Christmas Nativity). Judy shares her colorful collection and takes us on a trip South of the border to visit gifted Nacimiento Artists: "Nacimiento, Presepio, Crèche, Krippe, Pesebre, Belén— it doesn’t matter what language you speak—" she writes, "these words all describe that most wonderful of phenomena—the popular representation of the Nativity, the birth of Jesus Christ... Before long the custom of making Nativities spread from Italy to France and to Spain... And so it was that the nacimiento arrived in the New World with the conquistadores and frailes in the 16th century..."
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