The Holy Crib

In the days of Advent and Christmas – there is a picture of the Holy Crib. We have seen it in the so called the “Crypt of the Nativity”, below the sanctuary of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. It is called also the Bethlehem Crypt, which is the burial place for prominent Catholics. One of them should be Saint Jerome, the 4th century Doctor of the Church who lived in Bethlehem and translated the Bible into the Latin language (the Vulgate).

I wish you a blessed and happy Christmas.