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  • WINDOW CANDLE
  • GERMAN WREATH
  • CHRISTKIN
  • PASTORET
  • CAROLING
  • NATIVITY
  • SANTONS
  • RORATE MASS
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  • Adventsfenster
  • PAROLS
  • FASTING
  • CHRISTMAS TREE
  • Thousands of Italian children take a Baby Jesus from their Nativity Scene (for the tradition Bambinelli) to be blessed by Pope Francis during his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square in
  • Spain Christmas
A candle in the window
Although more popular in the 1970s, and usually more typical in rural Ireland, Catholics place a candle in the window to welcome Joseph and Mary in honor of their search for somewhere to stay. The candle is ideally lit and extinguished by a Mary in the family, in honor of the Blessed Mother.
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