THE CRIB.
The institution of Cribs owes it?, origin to St. Francis of Asaisi. St. Francis arranged a stable in a field so as to represent most vividly the place and surroundings of Our Saviour's birth in the flesh. He gathered together on this spot a multitude of lay people, clergy, and religious, who met here on Christmas Night to offer to their Infant God the homage of their praise and supplication. Midnight Mass was sung, and after the Gospel St. Francis poured forth the tenderness of his soul in a discourse in honor of the Babe of Bethlehem The impression he made was by no means transient, as from that time forward Cribs were erected in churches and private houses, where, in accordance, with Isaias i. 3, the ox and the as« were figured. The effects of thia representation on young and devout minds aoon rendered this pious custom general.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 52, 27 December 1900, Page 10
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151THE CRIB. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 52, 27 December 1900, Page 10
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