Daily Mail – Italian firm restoring Nativity Church: Like touching heaven

ROME (AP) — The Italian firm restoring one of Christianity’s holiest sites — the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem — says it’s more than halfway finished with the 14 million-euro project, which has already uncovered a Crusades-era mosaic angel hidden under plaster. Piacenti SpA, a family-run conservation firm from the Tuscan town of Prato, …

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Daily Mail – The angel that looks over the birthplace of Jesus

The angel that looks over the ‘birthplace of Jesus’: Incredible mosaic discovered under plaster walls in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem The intact mosaic angel stands eight feet tall in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem Church was built in the place where Jesus is believed to have been born Along with …