The Mount Laurel Living Nativity is a completely free gift to the community that has run for over 25 years! It is a live production with 13 walk-through, outdoor scenes. About 200 cast and crew are required to run it each night. ​When you arrive you'll enter the building, be given a group number and be seated in the sanctuary. While waiting you can enjoy live entertainment, until your group is called. Once your group begins, it takes about 45 minutes to walk through all the scenes (mostly outsid

In its present form, the custom of displaying figures depicting the birth of Christ owes its origin to St. Francis of Assisi, who made the Christmas crèche for Christmas Eve of 1223. | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

The Nativity—recreated in Christian plays and tableau as a reminder of the birth of Jesus. But did you know that only the Gospel of Matthew and Luke describe Jesus’s birth? Wise men are mentioned in Matthew, and shepherds in Luke, but never together! And no mention of any animals. It may have been St. Francis of Assisi in 1223 who originated much of our modern-day ideas for a Nativity scene. It’s said he built a manger and filled it with hay, and included two live animals. And villagers were inv