The Praying Angel Facing Right is one of 16 pieces in the Nativity, Bernardi 16″ Series. You can acquire this piece and the other pieces for your Bernardi Nativity year after year, whether as a gift for your own family, or as a most generous gift to your church. One day your Bernardi Nativity will finally include all 16 pieces and will be on full display during the Advent and Christmas seasons in your home, office, church, chapel, workplace, or workplace. Fashioned with faith, the Bernardi Nativity is one of the most exquisite and finest nativities ever carved from wood and finished by hand.

The Nativity, Bernardi 16″ Series, Praying Angel Facing Right – A Labor of Love, Hope and Faith

All sixteen pieces of the Bernardi Nativity 16″ Series are carved from wood, painted, and finished by hand in a northern Italian workshop. The “Nativity scene” (known in Italy as a presepe or presepio, and in France as a crèche) is an authentic, 800-year old tradition in Italy. After all, the first “nativity scene” ever (and a “living” one at that!) was brought together in 1223 by an Italian (and now patron saint of Italy) – Saint Francis of Assisi (go to History/Story tab). While in the Holy Land on pilgrimage, St. Francis contemplated with his own eyes and touched with his own hands the very spot in the cave below the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem where, according to tradition, Jesus had been born over 1,200 years earlier. Saint Francis relived the original Christmas night of Jesus’ birth with a “nativity scene” of living persons and animals. By doing so, he enabled the faithful onlookers to engage their own senses of sight, touch, smell, and hearing and thereby deepen their own worship of the Christ Child. The Bernardi Nativity is a lovely embodiment of this long and storied Italian tradition, a “culturally authentic” masterpiece, and a most selfless labor of love, faith and hope!

The Bernardi Nativity – An Exquisite Heirloom Gift for Generations to Come

Every Christmas season, the 16-inch Bernardi Nativity radiates serenity, depth, and beauty wherever it is on display. In Europe, crèches – small and large and in every configuration – will be on display everywhere in public places. May your own home, church, school, office, or workplace display a crèche of this heirloom-quality – a crèche expresses with theological and artistic profundity the one true “reason for the season”! The Praying Angel Facing Right with the entire Bernardi Nativity is just of such uncompromising heirloom quality and will be displayed prominently for many, many generations to come!

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