The Saylors brought their nativity collection to St. Peter’s for Advent. Jan has been collecting since the early 1990’s. The photo above took a character (or group) from each of the 8 countries represented in their collection.
Top Row, left to right – Bolivia, US, Indonesia, Peru
Second Row, left to right -Dominican Republic, Zambia, Colombia, and Haiti
There is a story behind each piece of art. Some of the art was bartered (Dominican Republic, Haiti) and others bought from Ten Thousand Villages a nonprofit fair trade organization (Indonesia, Peru, Colombia). Some of the pieces from Zambia and Dominican Republic reflect their overseas travels. Closer to home the US piece came from Jan’s family home. We thank them for sharing this treasure with St. Peter’s.
In Genesis 1:27, “God created man in his own image.” In turn, the universal nature of the nativity story has sparked artists to derive their own image of the event.
Here’s a gallery of the collection:
Saylor’s Nativity Collection(full size gallery)