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Show Christmas Creche Has Tradition We do not know wher the first creche was set ur as a tableau to illustrate the nativity, but church records indicate that St Francis of Assisi received special permission from the Pope to reconstruct the scene in the Bethlehem stable. Today the crib, surrounded surround-ed by figurines of the Holy Family, the Three Wise Men, shepherds, angels and farm animals, is to southern Europe and Catholic countries what the brightly decorated Christmas tree is to America Amer-ica . In the Southern Hemisphere Hemi-sphere Christmas is celebrated cele-brated in mid - summer heat. j |