This beautiful Fontanini Wooden Christmas Stable
is approximately 10 inches at its tallest point, 14 inches across, and 6.5 inches deep. The Wooden Christmas Stable is made of wood, moss, and bark. This Wooden Christmas Stable is perfect for your first nativity set. The outside of the roof is covered with lush sphagnum moss. There are a few clumps of sphagnum moss on the inside of the back wall and the floor of the Fontanini Stable. There is a short wall on one side of the Wooden Stable and a short support pillar on the other side of the Stable that has a covering of bark strips. There are two, staggered, lofts across the back of the Fontanini Stable. This Fontanini Stable is a beautiful start for your nativity scene decorations.

Cycle of the Nativity Story:
For many of us Christmas means Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and the events thereon. However there are a great number of events and stories which surround the Nativity of Christ. Some are accepted as the Gospel truths, others are a little dubious in the sense that they may have been subjected to later embellishments in the course of storytelling and translating; or simply that there were only fragments (tiny scraps of writings) which did not give a full enough text - such as the worthy Gospel of St Peter himself - to make them worth keeping in the New Testament. Click to check out our unique Christmas Nativity Scene Sets. There were two main gospels which contained accounts of the Nativity. These were called the 'Infant Narratives'. The oldest is from the protoevangelium of St James. There is some basis for truth, and in fact the Eastern Christian Church accepts many of these stories as part of the old liturgy of the Nativity. Click to see all of our rustic Nativity Creches For Nativity Sets. But Western Christians have put them in the 'appocryphal gospels' (not to be confused with the Apocalypse!) ie, stories which might have a layer of legendary 'jam' between the sponge truths!) Select if you would like to hang Nativity Ornaments on your Artifical Prelit Christmas Trees. Click to look at more Christian Gift Ideas for your holiday gift giving.

Such stories enjoyed popularity right up to the Norman invasion of Britain, which happened some time after the rift between the East and West Christians. Until the Norman invasion, Christian imagery tended to be very Byzantine in style, and the stories in the Nativity Cycle were often painted onto church walls as a visual aid to largely illiterate congregation. Select the following link to view all of our fabulous Nativity Figurines. The Normans, with the blessing of Rome, set about destroying these images, because they were not Western, and a new order was evolved. However, as they covered all the old picture stories up with Limewash, they were all preserved rather than destroyed, so that today many restored churches in England have this wonderful old witness to the early stories of Christ's nativity for all to see! Select to view all of our wonderful Christmas Nativity Scene products. Also select to add special Nativity Accessories to your unique Nativity collection.