{"id":13049,"date":"2023-12-19T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/uncategorized\/celebrating-800-years-of-the-creche-at-the-michael-mcgivney-pilgrimage-center\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:27:22","slug":"celebrating-800-years-of-the-creche-at-the-michael-mcgivney-pilgrimage-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/who-knew-blog\/celebrating-800-years-of-the-creche-at-the-michael-mcgivney-pilgrimage-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 800 Years of the Cr\u00e8che at The Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know what it is, you didn\u2019t know there was a word for it. Now entering the world of the cr\u00e8che, a symbol synonymous with Christmas as a stocking or an elf. A cr\u00e8che is a three-dimensional nativity scene, a physical retelling of the biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ. The cr\u00e8ches we\u2019re talking about today are not the kitschy tabletop sets of Christmases past but rather full-fledged installations on view right now in Downtown New Haven.<\/span><\/p>\n

From now until March 24, 2024, the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center invites visitors and locals to stop in for the holidays and experience their current exhibit, \u201c<\/span>Celebrating 800 Years of the Cr\u00e8che<\/span><\/a>.\u201d The center\u2019s collection includes more than 50 cr\u00e8ches representing 18 countries across North and South America. Alongside the displays, the exhibit educates visitors on the holiday traditions practiced worldwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Christian faith, the cr\u00e8che or nativity scene is a seasonal display of individual sculptures depicting the nativity story. These displays can vary in their inclusions, some adding to the story\u2019s human cast of characters, including sheep, shepherds, angels, a donkey, or an ox. The first-ever nativity scene was said to be created by Saint Francis of Assisi, but all of those details <\/span>(and more) <\/span><\/i>await you at the Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center this winter. This exhibit walks visitors through those early storytelling origins to the innovative, artistic, large-scale cr\u00e8ches of today. Beaded cr\u00e8ches, clay cr\u00e8ches, and everything in between are on display at the center right now, a perfect festive activity to fold into the run-up to Christmas Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the collection of cr\u00e8ches, the center will exhibit \u201c<\/span>Christmas in the Americas<\/span><\/a>,\u201d a showcase of the holiday traditions native to communities across the Americas, until February 4, 2023.\u00a0 The center was established in New Haven in November of 2020, honoring a New Haven priest who lived from 1852-1890 and is currently being considered for Catholic sainthood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit <\/span>https:\/\/www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org<\/span><\/a> to plan your visit, and consider stopping by for the center\u2019s Christmas Time Family Day on December 28th from 11AM-3PM. There will be live holiday tunes, fun kids\u2019 crafts, and tours of the festive exhibits. Register for the free event <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know what it is, you didn\u2019t know there was a word for it. Now entering the world of the cr\u00e8che, a symbol synonymous with Christmas as a stocking or an elf. A cr\u00e8che is a three-dimensional nativity scene, a physical retelling of the biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ. The cr\u00e8ches we\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[656,655],"tags":[677,603,645],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","category-who-knew-blog","tag-museums-and-galleries","tag-seasonal","tag-winter"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WHO2-1140x445.png",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WHO2-463x348.png",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WHO2-300x200.png",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WHO2.png",1600,1066,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14085,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions\/14085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}