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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1913
Page
2
A survey of Christmas customs from Bethlehem to Spain Ireland Japan Bohemia and Bohemian fortune telling describes how nations differ in festivity prayer and ritual. Bethlehem draws cosmopolitan visitors while other lands mix religion and tradition with unique beliefs and games.
In Paris many go to mass on Christmas Day as a religious festival. Crowded congregations fill Madeleine and Notre Dame churches with Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. A wooden infant Jesus rests in a straw manger inside a small cage of stones while Saint Joseph guards the child and the Virgin Mary. The three wise men are sometimes added with offerings.
An overview of Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, its depiction of the Virgin and Child with St Sixtus and St Catherine, and the artist’s career from his Florentine period to Rome. It notes the painting as a pinnacle of Renaissance art, its origins as an altar piece, and its later ownership by Augustus III of Poland.
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