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SOPHRONIUS OF JERUSALEM (ca. 600 A.D.)
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The manger, where the Virgin Mary layed down her child (Luke 2:7) inside the grotto of Bethehem, was always a specially important pilgrim site. Origen, in the first half of the 3rd century A.D., speaks about it as a special place well known also to the non-Christian inhabitants of the town. The same traditional manger belongs today to the Franciscans, and at Christmas time a small statue of the Child Jesus, of beautiful Spanish workmanship, is put there to recall the faithful of the mistery of Incarnation.
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