In the evening, the Living Nativity Scene is open at Franciszkańska Street
There is already a stage, a crib and buildings for animals, today the last ones are underway. From Christmas Eve evening to Easter Monday, in front of the Franciscan monastery in Krakow, you will be able to see the Living Nativity Scene in detail.
The Living Nativity Scene organized by the Franciscan friars is one of Krakow’s Christmas traditions. On the square in front of the Franciscan monastery in Krakow, a stage, a nativity scene for the Holy Family and buildings for animals from the Krakow zoo are set up. This year, visitors see two llamas, a donkey, a goat and a pony on the site.
On Christmas Eve evening at 22.30 Living Nativity Scene solemnly abp. Marek Jędraszewski wishes for residents and guests. Then, the Franciscans prepared nativity plays and shared carol singing. At midnight, the brothers will invite you to the Basilica for Midnight Mass. In the following days, the Franciscans invite you to “Kraków’s Bethlehem” from 2 p.m. to the evening – nativity play and caroling in the program.
Several ensembles perform on the outdoor stage: Fioretti, Bonoboco and friends, CDN Quartet, Odświętni, as well as children’s choirs: Różyczki Pani Myślenickiej and EmmanuEl from Wielogłowy. Nativity plays will be staged by the Franciscan brothers and the Independent Homestead “San Damiano”. You can learn more about the sources of the Franciscan tradition of living nativity scenes in two lectures.
During the concerts, the brothers from Ukraine will collect a collection for the purchase of converters and batteries that will help “points of steadfastness”. In these places, deprivation of power Ukrainians can at the expense of the phone or drink tea.
The tradition of a living nativity scene dates back to the Middle Ages. an additional such stable was organized by St. Francis of Assisi in 1223 in a grotto in the Italian town of Greccio, this is how the reality of the birth of Jesus looks like. For the patron of the pope, he prepared a manger, hay and brought an ox and a donkey. The Franciscans moved I miss you to Poland in 1992. The event quickly became an inseparable function of Krakow’s Christmas celebrations.
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