These Advent Calendar with Nativity Scene
are about 13 inches by 10 inches. The Christmas Nativity Scene on this colorful cardboard is the baby Jesus lying in his manger surrounded by animals. This are 24 small windows to open to help your family count down the days to the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus. This Unique Christmas Gifts calendar is made in England and is sure to delight your children and the whole family as we look forward to the birth of baby Jesus. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

Balthazar.
One of the Three Wise Men, King of Sheba or Ethiopia or Chaldea. He was tall, dark skinned, bearded, 40 years old and his gift to Christ was Frankincense, a token of divinity and which depicts the Son of man. Santa Ornaments.

Cross History.
The cross is the most common symbol of Christianity today. The Christian cross is a sacred emblem of the Christian faith. The religious crosses are a symbol of redemption, signifying Christ’s death on the holy cross. Christians believe that Jesus’ Crucifixion played a central role in redeeming humanity from its sins, and they regard the holy cross as a sign of redemption. The Christian cross has had an enduring part in the profession of the Christian faith.
Religious crosses have a number of uses in Christian worship. A Christian cross on a staff is carried in many processions. During some ceremonies, members of the clergy or worshipers trace the shape of a cross with a hand or certain fingers. Holy crosses were put up to mark the graves of heroes, kings, and bishops during the Middle Ages. Often religious crosses were set up in market places. People preached beneath religious crosses. Even today churches are often built with their floor plan in the shape of a cross picture. Select this link to view our Holy Cross and Iron Cross.

History of Silent Night.
The most widely sung Christmas carol in the world began as a poem called, “Stille Nacht” by Austrian priest Josef Mohr in 1816. two years later, preparing for the Christmas Eve service in Oberndorf’s St. Nicholas church, Mohr discovered that the organ was not functioning. Legend has attributed the failure to mice gnawing through he bellows, but it is more likely that the organ in the riverside church suffered from excessive moisture and rust in its works. Mohr asked the organist Franz Gruber to compose a guitar setting for his poem and the resulting composition was sung at the midnight service.
The song would probably have been performed only on that single occasion and forgotten had a visiting musician not seen the music in the church in the early 1820’s and taken it away with him. It was played throughout Austria and Germany for the next few years, growing in popularity. The authorship of the piece remained a mystery until 1854, by which time Josef Mohr was dead. The carols had been attributed to many different composers but the director of the Royal Court Choir of Berlin, where “Silent Night” had become the favorite of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, researched the origins of the carol and succeeded in having its true creators credited for their work.
The song has been translated into over 300 languages. American Episcopal priest John Freeman Young wrote the English version in 1863. Select this link to view our Christmas Ornament Sets.