Kathleen Brady

Kathleen Brady is the author of Francis and Clare: The Struggles of the Saints of Assisi, which received an award in biography from the Catholic Media Association. Her other books are Ida Tarbell: Portrait of A Muckraker, for which she was named a fellow of the Society of American Historians, and Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball. Her website is kathleenbrady.net.

A tableau of sculptures or living beings, the Nativity scene (as well as the closely related Adoration of the Magi) traces its origins back some 1,500 years.

What Nativity Scenes Tell Us About the Evolution of Christianity

From ancient mosaics to Saint Francis of Assisi, depictions of Jesus's birth reflect the changing conventions of the world's largest religion

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