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Detail of an Ikon of Mary , "Theotokos" (Greek = god-bearer)
This looks like a quilt to me but there wasn't much info on the page I found it on. The smaller "panes" seem to depict events leading up to Christ's birth . . . but I haven't looked at it in detail yet.
BTW Christmas's 12 days start on Christmas Day and end on Epiphany (January 6th) the day when The Magi supposedly found the home of Joseph and Mary and Jesus in Bethlehem.
In traditional Catholic homes the tree was not decorated until Christmas Eve and taken down after Epiphany.
The infant Jesus was placed in the "crêche" (French - my mother always used that word, I don't know the translation (it's not "crib")) after Midnight Mass with the shepherds nearby. The Three Magi were posed as on the way, moving closer each day until Epiphany.
My godmother long ago made her kids a cardboard star covered with foil and hung it from the ceiling as far from the tree as she could (the crêche was beneath it). Each night she moved it closer - when they were little they thought it moved by itself.
A wonderful way to teach the rtaditonas. They insisted that she keep the star tradition (the same star - sometimes with renewed foil) every year, including the three years I lived with them.
I wonder if any of them do that for their kids? I should ask . . .
Happy Third Day of Christmas!
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