All Christians, young and old, eagerly await the arrival of Christmas every year.

During these days, we feel a strong Christmas atmosphere around us, full of religiosity. The festive appearance of shop windows, the preparations made at home, school celebrations, shopping for toys and gifts strongly emphasize their arrival.

The joyful message of love and peace comes again to Earth. Joy, happiness, and hope fill our hearts during these holy days.

Our thoughts travel to the Holy Land, where about two thousand years ago, Christ was born in the small and then obscure Bethlehem.

We have often read and heard the Christmas story. We like it, it moves us, and it enchants us every time as if it were the first.

This beautiful story aims to remind children of this book. It wants to take them far back in time, to the year 1, when on a cold winter night, on December 25th, the little Christ, the son of God and Savior of the whole world, was born by the Virgin Mary in the Cave of Bethlehem. [...]