Attempting to answer ‘What Child Is This?’ By Tim Colliver - [email protected] Seventeeth-century artist Bartolome Murillo’s painting of “Adoration of the Shepherds” from the 1960 Devotional Family Bible. Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette Editor’s Note: It’s been said that Christmas is one of the few holidays that has its own “soundtrack.” The Times-Gazette today presents the ninth installment of a special 12-part series entitled “The 12 Carols of Christmas” that will appear daily through Christmas Eve, relating the stories and history behind some of the best-loved sacred songs of the season. In Mark’s gospel, Jesus and the disciples were in the towns on the coastline of Caesarea Phillipi when he posed a question to those who were following him.