{"id":539,"date":"2015-12-02T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:53:40","slug":"what-is-a-presepio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"What is a Presepio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A presepio is an Italian Nativity scene where the Holy Family is the centerpiece, while also bringing to life a bustling Neapolitan village during the Renaissance.\u00a0 The image\u00a0here is exhibited at the Viatorian Province Center in Arlington Heights, however the original 3D presepio is on display every year at Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Bourbonnais, IL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/IMG_4086_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-large wp-image-538 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/IMG_4086_2-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4086_2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/IMG_4086_2-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/IMG_4086_2-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pighini-2010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-540\" src=\"http:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pighini-2010-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pighini-2010-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pighini-2010-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pighini-2010.jpg 1438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><strong>Fr. Richard J. Pighini, CSV,<\/strong> pastor at Maternity BVM Church has been collecting individual pieces for the presepio\u00a0from Naples, Italy for the past 10 years.\u00a0 He proudly sets up the display on the altar to Mary after the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Sunday of Advent &#8211; each year a little differently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">Be sure to stop in to see it in person this Christmas season to truly understand the amount of detailed work\u00a0that is\u00a0involved in such an elaborate Nativity scene.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presepio is an Italian Nativity scene where the Holy Family is the centerpiece, while also bringing to life a bustling Neapolitan village during the Renaissance.\u00a0 The image\u00a0here is exhibited at the Viatorian Province Center in Arlington Heights, however the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/?p=539\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-news.viatorians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}