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Christmas in Italy

tradizionni The most popular for the Christmas celebration of Christmas are the crib and the Christmas tree.
The crib according to tradition has its origins in 1223 in Umbria in Greccio by St Francis, who wanted to enrich the Mass of Christmas with a nativity scene that recalls the Nativity.
The first to describe the nativity were the evanelisti Luke and Matthew proposing the icon of the manger of the ox and donkey.

This representation was favorably impressed by the imagination of that reported in many early Christian graffiti wall in the catacombs of Domitilla in the cemetery of St. Agnes. Therefore, San Francisco, borrowing this ancient tradition, he organized the first nativity scene in which as the centuries have been added allegorical characters that have come down to us.

Another interpretation of the origin of the crib is the one which attributes the authorship to the Brother Francis Celano in 1222 that assists in Bethlehem in the celebrations and liturgies of the birth and was so impressed that he returned to Italy to Honorius III asked permission to represent them the following Christmas. The pope allowed him to represent them in a cave near the church. On Christmas Eve during the performance of Greccio noticed that the peasants with torches lit up the place. Thus was born the tradition that was revived over the centuries.
The Christmas tree probably originates from pagan cults related to Northern Europe. He joined the Italian tradition in the late nineteenth century when the wife of Umberto I prepared it in a Quirinale.
Although many of the Christmas traditions si vanno perdendo, l'albero resiste, anzi ha assunto il ruolo di vero simbolo di Natale. Spesso l’abete viene sostituito con alberi di plastica, le candele di cera dalle luci elettriche più o meno intermittenti, le originali mele colorate od ostie,dal significato religioso, hanno ceduto il posto ad addobbi in vetro colorato di ogni foggia, ma l’albero continua ad essere presente nelle case della maggior parte degli italiani.
La sua diffusione massiccia è comprovata dalla tradizione introdotta da Giovanni Paolo II di allestire un grande albero di Natale in piazza San Pietro a Roma.