Description
Inside Left:
St. Francis spent the Christmas of 1223 at Grecchio in the valley of Rieti where, he told his friend John da Vellita, “I would make a memorial of that Child who was born in Bethlehem and in some sort behold with bodily eyes the hardships of His infant state, lying on hay in a manger with the ox and the ass standing by.” Accordingly, a “crib” was set up at the hermitage, and the peasants crowded to the midnight Mass, at which Francis served as deacon and preached on the Christmas mystery.
Inside Right:
A Christmas Gift
__________
will share in the fruits of
A Daily Mass
offered by the
Franciscan Friars
for a period of one month
beginning Christmas Day
at the request of
__________