Saint Francis Celebrates Christmas

by Mary Caswell Walsh

Recounts St. Francis of Assisi's reenactment of the manger scene of the birth of Jesus, and how that led to the use of small nativity scenes in people's homes at Christmas. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0829411127
• ISBN13: 9780829411126
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Lovely Christmas Book

This is a lovely book for young children about St. Francis and the nativity or creche. St. Francis was the first to represent the nativity scene, using live people & animals. Today in Italy they have very elaborate nativity scenes, and many include a statue of St. Francis. The book is wonderful to read to a child to better help explain the real meaning of Christmas-- & it's not Santa!