The creche brings home the Christmas story for these ‘mega’ collectors
For creche collectors, the Nativity scenes are both universal something shared by all Christians and deeply personal reflecting their own cultures and even interests. A wide variety of displays at the Community Festival of Nativities in Peoria, Illinois, in December 2017. Photo courtesy of Shelly Crespo
December 24, 2020
(RNS) For the Rev. Carol Hull, it all started with a “beautiful” Nativity set, or creche, that her father brought home from a trip to Mexico when she was a child.
Hull, now 77, remembers buying a similar scene for her children to get to know all the figures in the Christmas story.