{"id":66126,"date":"2025-12-20T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66126\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:01:25","slug":"99th-year-of-little-town-of-bethlehem-nativity-at-st-boniface-catholic-church-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66126\/","title":{"rendered":"99th year of &#8216;Little Town of Bethlehem&#8217; nativity at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765896397129.png\" alt=\"Little Town of Bethlehem\u201d nativity at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Vincent. Submitted photo\"\/>Little Town of Bethlehem\u201d nativity at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Vincent. Submitted photo<\/p>\n<p>Submitted<\/p>\n<p>VINCENT \u2014 The \u201cLittle Town of Bethlehem\u201d nativity at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Vincent, will be open for visitors on Sunday. Dec. 21 and also\u00a0Christmas Day from 1-5 p.m. both days. \u00a0Cookies and cider will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Appointments can also be made at any other time by calling Carol at 785-<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hayspost.com\/posts\/tel:735-9282\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">735-9282<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 99th year of the nativity, begun by the parish priest Fr. Callistus Rectenwald in 1927. Over the years, the nativity has become a worldwide representation of Christmas.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Rocks from all 50 states and 105 countries surround the scene, in particular rocks from the Cave of Lourdes and the Sea of Galilee. Infant Jesus is from Spain, and Mary, Joseph and the Three Kings are from Germany. A special section of the nativity is dedicated to our veterans who could not be home for Christmas over the years, featuring rocks from Germany, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Wake Island and Christmas Island, to name a few. The nativity has had special lighting effects added the last few years &#8211; a color changing rock show and a neon blue lit sky in the background. Four trickling waterfalls, animals and shepherds dot the scene surrounding the Bethlehem Inn, and the stable made from a nearby pear tree in 1927.<\/p>\n<p>St. Boniface Catholic Church is located 5.5 miles south of Victoria and two miles east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little Town of Bethlehem\u201d nativity at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Vincent. Submitted photo Submitted VINCENT \u2014 The \u201cLittle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-66126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}