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By Courtney MaresThe underground Chapel of the Nativity in the Basilica of St. Mary Major — known to Italians as Santa Maria Maggiore — once contained at least six marble Nativity statues sculpted by Arnolfo di Cambio in the late 13th century.
This means that this Nativity scene was present when St. Cajetan experienced an apparition of the Child Jesus in the Chapel of the Nativity on Christmas night in 1517 and when St. Ignatius of Loyola chose to offer his first Mass in the chapel in 1538. “In the history of Christianity there are many depictions of the Nativity of Christ, of course, even on the early Christian sarcophagi, but also in the Romanesque cathedrals and in the Gothic cathedrals there are depictions of an episode in the life of Christ: his birth,” he said.
This relic of the manger was historically kept in the crypt Chapel of the Nativity, which was first created in the seventh century but has been repeatedly reconstructed over the centuries. The relic of the manger is now kept in a niche below the main altar of the basilica. It was moved by Pope Pius IX from the Chapel of the Nativity to its current location under the altar in the 19th century.
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