New! Nativity – Fra Angelico – 4.25" Framed Miniature Jesus of Nazareth and as man

and as man

This is a perfect picture for a bedroom

and eventually he became a lay brother in a Capuchin monastery

and he died there after a long and successful career

The usual way of portraying Clare is to show her stopping a band of marauding soldiers by holding the Holy Eucharist before them

New! Nativity – Fra Angelico – 4.25" Framed Miniature Jesus of Nazareth and as manThis image is from Fra Angelico's painting, "The Navitity," painted around 1425. The colors are beautiful and vibrant. Mary and Joseph are worshiping Jesus in reverent awe. The ox and ass look on*, as they are in almost every nativity painting ever done. The two animals aren't mentioned in the Gospel accounts of the nativity, but are symbolic: the ox stands for Israel, and the ass stands for the Gentiles, showing they are united under Christ. This