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I do understand that Francis did not originate the presepio idea; it had been around a while; hwat he did was to bring a live ox & an ass to help celebrate. Pardon Tillinghast On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, laura jacobus wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:05:36 GMT > From: laura jacobus <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: christianisation > > it seems to me that St. Francis's institution of the miracle > of the crib (praesepio) at Greccio was to do with such > christianization of pagan practices..I seem to remember that > it first took place in the woods. > > laura jacobus > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%