Nativity synonyms

She assured Jerome that, in the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, she beheld, with the eye of faith, the Christ-child wrapped in swaddling clothes (Ep. 108, 10).

385, says that the festival was held in the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem (Duchesne, Chr.

These bells reminded Pierre that it was Sunday and the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin.

The interv__1 between the Nativity and the Baptism.

How long before this the Nativity should be placed the Gospel does not enable us to say precisely, but as Herod's decree of extermination included all infants up to two years of age, and as a sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt of unknown length intervened between the massacre and Herod's death, it is clear that it is at least possible, so far as the evidence of this Gospel goes, that the birth of Christ preceded Herod's death by as much as two or three years.