Around mid-November, work began to prepare the Vatican's spectacular Nativity scene in St. Peter's Square. <\/p>\n
This is the result. <\/p>\n
Roman tradition prohibits the placement of baby Jesus before December 24<\/strong>. <\/p>\n The display has a very original Neapolitan style that combines traditional figures like the Holy Family or Wise Men with other stories. <\/p>\n People like it, but not everyone understands it. <\/p>\n \u201cWe loved it. We loved it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n 'Absolutely beautiful, we are very happy that we made this trip. We'll do it again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely, it was beautiful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI've been here a couple of times already to look at... It looks a little bit strange. It has some images, or some setups that I've never seen before, but I don't know why I had asked people that were born here in Rome and they were not able to explain that to me\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n The secret to this Nativity scene is that it includes figures representing works of mercy.<\/strong> <\/p>\n From visiting prisoners...<\/p>\n Taking care of the sick...<\/p>\n Giving food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty...<\/p>\n To clothing the naked...<\/p>\n ...or burying the dead.<\/p>\n People seem to like it. It's the most-visited Nativity scene in the world, or at least the most-photographed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They combine the Holy Family's story with works of mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9lCC1hkJMQA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpresepevaticanoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpresepevaticanoint.mp4","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}