The film narrates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and his early life as described in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew. It begins with the decree from Emperor Augustus for a census, leading ...

and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. The reader concludes: The gospel of the Lord. All respond: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. The figures may be placed in ...

Just as the angel had said, Mary gave birth and Jesus was born. Mary laid baby Jesus in a manger which is where the animal’s food was usually kept. In the hills near Bethlehem, a group of ...