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Christmas Postcards - Episode 1 – The Nativity story in the Bible and the apocrypha.

Christmas Postcards - Episode 1 – The Nativity story in the Bible and the apocrypha.

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Biblical and extra-Biblical accounts of Christ’s birth and their influence on the Nativity story with dramatised passages taken from the Gospels according to Matthew and Luke, from the Douay-Rheims Bible, first published in 1582 and 1610.

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Biblical and extra-Biblical accounts of Christ’s birth and their influence on the Nativity story with dramatised passages taken from the Gospels according to Matthew and Luke, from the Douay-Rheims Bible, first published in 1582 and 1610.

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