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Hand Carved Wood Statuette
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16 inches
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Special Order Item
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Made in Italy
Description
The Kneeling King Caspar of the Nativity, Bernardi 16″ Series depicts one of the three kings (also referred to as “magi” or “Wise Men”). Caspar is traditionally an older man who is kneeling and offering gold to the newborn King of the Jews. This exquisite piece is part of a 16-piece nativity set (or crèche). This Kneeling King Caspar is a most important piece to acquire, along with the other two wise men: King Melchior and King Balthazar. With these three pieces in hand, you can expand your Bernardi Nativity year by year, whether as a gift for your own or another family, or as a most generous donation to your church. Eventually your complete Bernardi Nativity will be complete in all its beauty during the Advent and Christmas seasons and on display in your church, office, home, school, or workplace. Fashioned with faith, the Bernardi Nativity is indeed one of the very finest ever carved from wood by hand.
The Nativity, Bernardi 16″ Series, Kneeling King Caspar – A Labor of Love, Hope and Faith
All sixteen pieces of the 16-inch Bernardi Nativity are carved from wood by hand in a northern Italian workshop. The Nativity scene (known in Italy as a presepio or presepe) is a true original Italian tradition. After all, the first nativity scene (a “living” one at that!) was brought together in 1223 by an Italian who is now a patron saint of Italy, Saint Francis Assisi (go to History/Story tab). While visiting the Holy Land, Saint Francis beheld with his own eyes and touched with his own hands the very spot where Jesus was reputed to have been born in the cave below the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Saint Francis recreated the nativity of Christmas night with living persons and animals in order that onlookers focus and intensify their own worship of Christ by engaging their own senses of sight, smell, touch, and hearing. The Bernardi Nativity is then a worthy descendant in a long and storied Italian tradition and is as “culturally authentic” as it gets – a genuine labor of love, faith and hope!
The Bernardi Nativity – An Authentic Heirloom Gift for Many Generations to Come
Every Christmas, the 16-inch Bernardi Nativity emanates depth, serenity, and beauty. In Europe during every Christmas season, crèches, large and small, will be on display in many public places. May your own church, office, home, workplace, and school be blessed with a crèche of heirloom-quality such as this, a crèche which bespeaks with theological and artistic profundity the one and only “reason for the season”! This Kneeling King Caspar along with the entire Bernardi Nativity is truly a gift of enduring heirloom quality and will be displayed cherished for many generations to come!
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