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Ecliplulg the Christmas festival in Italy is the feast of the Immaculate Conception, honoring the Virgin Mary. Calabrian shepherds, dressed in goatskin trousers and coldrful jackets, come down frqtn the Mountains to play on their
^ipes and pastoral flutes, stopping ^before each shrine' in the streets and before the doors of all carpen‘ ter shops to salute the -Virgin and child. *
Italy’s Christmas scene is set with a profusion of pretty,flowers and graceful olive trees. Their Santa Claus is the beneficent old witch, “Befana,” who, clothed in rags, ride from house to house on a broomstick, leaving presents beside the hearth for the children.
The Precipk), truly symbolic of the Italian Christmas, is found in every home, with tiny statuettes of he Holy Family, angels, shepherds and Wise Men grouped about a miniature manger.
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