Since their wedding on Dec. 26, 1966, the couple have amassed 1,700 Nativity sets, 110 statues, icons and banners of St. Nicholas and more than 100 Advent calendars.

My family’s Nativity scene, like so many others that will appear during the holiday season, has some notable inaccuracies. It portrays a fair-skinned holy family, not a Middle Eastern one.

Advent calendars often depict a scene, such as a nativity, Christmas tree, winter village, and other holiday images, and within the scene are windows or doors (or just flaps) with numbers 1-24 on ...

Michelle writes: My family has a plush Advent calendar that forms a Nativity scene. For years, my sister (20) and I (23) have alternated who gets to add the wise man Balthazar, the most special ...

A honeybee hive needs at least 60 pounds of honey to survive the winter. In this way, all their hoarding of honey from summer blooms has a purpose. With only 38 pounds of honey, I worry about my ...

Best: Light-up design Score: 9/10 Carol singers, fir trees, reindeer and a snowy landscape; this charming winter scene ticks a lot of festive boxes. But it’s when the advent calendar is all lit ...

For Christmas 2022, the Vatican has commissioned a nativity scene made of life-sized figures hand carved out of alpine cedar trees. The display will be unveiled in St. Peter’s Square on Dec. 3 ...

While Advent calendars have evolved over the ... lighting candles and placing straws in a Nativity crib. ... wooden Advent calendar in 1851 and other early "Christmas clocks" and "Christmas ...

In addition to Advent, there are other celebrations and decorations associated with the Christmas season and the birth of Christ. Mangers or nativity scenes are frequently set up in Catholic ...