Away in a Manger

Since the Great Depression, the Rockettes have shared Radio City Music Hall with live farm animals from camels to donkeys to sheep to stage a live nativity scene for its annual Christmas Spectacular. But the world saw its first living nativity in 1224, when St. Francis of Assisi re created the birth of Jesus to explain the holiday to his followers. During that first display, the manger was also used as an altar for Christmas Mass.