Vatican Nativity Scene question: does Vatican *keep* all the Nativity scenes?

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I read in a couple of places that this year’s Nativity scene is from 40 or 50 years ago, which has caused me to wonder… it seems that the Vatican has a new one each year, and they are really big.

The fact they can pull one out from decades ago… are they keeping all those Nativity scenes?

😯 😯 😯 😯
 
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It is actually on loan from the town of Castelli in Abruzzo Italy.

It was made in the 1960’s by a high school for the arts.
 
It was a very rebellious time. The 1970s were more contemplative in a way but also extremely sexually promiscuous. The 1980s were very materialistic. The 1990s went from cocoon but STILL rebellious (don’t have a cow man) to tech focused. The 2000s were fundamentally affected in all sorts of ways by 9/11. The 2010s were marked by ‘change for change’s sake’ and a 1984 quality whereby everything we thought was ‘good’ was ‘not good’ and everything ‘bad’ was now ‘good’.

The 2020s —are frankly terrifying to contemplate.
 
Despite the objections, this year’s Nativity is relatively uncontroversial. Remember 2017?

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Is that the one that was supposed to have homoerotic overtones?

I’ll take the astronaut and Japanese monster alien over that thing any day.
 
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