Christmas Wishes 2025 by Bishop Joseph G…
Best wishes for Holy Christmas 2025 from Bishop Giuseppe Giudice of the Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno before the Nativity scene at the Vatican “Tu Scendi della Stelle” donated by our diocesan church.
“Tu scendi dalle stelle” is the nativity scene of the Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno in St. Peter’s Square. A piece of Agro Nocerino-Sarnese-an area that includes 13 municipalities in the province of Salerno and Naples-has landed in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for Christmas 2025. The scene is set in a rectangle measuring 17 meters by 12 meters with a maximum height of nearly 8 meters.
The outline of the Baptistery of Santa Maria Maggiore in Nocera Superiore, a house in the courtyards of our villages, and Christmas sung by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori are just a part of the many spiritual, artistic and cultural references in the 18th-century Neapolitan-style work.
A journey that began a few years ago, after the exchange of letters between the bishop of the Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno, Monsignor Giuseppe Giudice, and the Governorate of the Vatican City State.
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