Winter Appeal 2024
Winter Appeal 2024
Now three years before his death it befell that he was minded, at the town of Greccio, to
celebrate the memory of the Birth of the Child Jesus, with all the added solemnity that he
might, for the kindling of devotion. That this might not seem an innovation, he sought and
obtained license from the Supreme Pontiff, and then made ready a manger, and bade
hay, together with an ox and an ass, be brought unto the spot.