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Above them loomed the Nativity façade, the only one that Gaudí had come close to finishing.
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D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Bates said the flames also damaged a fence around the Nativity scene.
—Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
From this perspective, the familiar elements of the Nativity—the stable, the shepherds, the Magi—were not meant to paper over the embarrassment at Jesus’ illegitimacy.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Imagine mixing the Nativity with Star Wars so that figures from one narrative are transmogrified into another.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
At Christmastime, the academy adapted a classical Ukrainian tradition of presenting the Nativity story with puppets to tell a tale of Cossack warriors defending children and families – one with a newborn baby – against Russian invaders.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2025
Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born.
—Jalal Bwaitel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Bates said the flames also damaged a fence around the Nativity scene.
—Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
From this perspective, the familiar elements of the Nativity—the stable, the shepherds, the Magi—were not meant to paper over the embarrassment at Jesus’ illegitimacy.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Imagine mixing the Nativity with Star Wars so that figures from one narrative are transmogrified into another.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
At Christmastime, the academy adapted a classical Ukrainian tradition of presenting the Nativity story with puppets to tell a tale of Cossack warriors defending children and families – one with a newborn baby – against Russian invaders.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2025
Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born.
—Jalal Bwaitel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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“The Nativity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Nativity. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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