Christmas in America
vasilina the birth of Jesus Chrest Child born miraculously - not as a result of the carnal union of Mary and Joseph, but by the descent of the Holy Spirit on her (virgin birth). The situation underlines the birth of a special event - the baby Jesus born in a stable, glorifies the host of angels, and in the east lights up a bright star. Worship him come shepherds, wise men, whose path to his home points moving across the sky the star of Bethlehem, bring him gifts. Eight days after the birth of Jesus is the rite of circumcision (circumcision of the Lord), and on the fortieth day at the Temple - the rite of purification and consecration to God, during which his praise righteous Simeon and the prophetess Anna (Candlemas). Learning of the coming of the Messiah, the wicked king of the Jews Herod the Great in fear for their power orders to destroy all the children in Bethlehem and its vicinity, but Joseph and Mary, warned by an angel, fled with Jesus to Egypt. Apocrypha tells of the many miracles that Jesus Christ committed two years on the way to Egypt. After a three-year stay in Egypt, Joseph and Mary, learning about the death of Herod, returned to his hometown of Nazareth in Galilee (northern Palestine). Then, according to the Apocrypha, for seven years, Jesus' parents moved with him from town to town, and around him the glory of perfect stretches of miracles: the word of his men were healed, died and was resurrected, inanimate objects came to life, wild animals humbled, water Jordan parted. Child, showing unusual wisdom, bewilders their mentors. Twelve-boy, he struck an unusually deep questions and answers teachers of the Law (the laws of Moses), which enters into a conversation at the Temple. But then, as reported by the Arabic Infancy Gospel ( "He was hiding his wonders, its secrets and mysteries, until they turned to him for thirty years."
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