This Christmas Nativity holy card was by the Benedictines of Beuron (BOY-ron) Germany. The Beuron art style was built with circles and triangles in the composition, which you can see even in this small sample. The intent was to create a formal calm, to help facilitate worship and contemplation. We think this one was from the early 1900s.

The prayer on the front is Latin. We have it in English on the back. It's the Christmas stanza from the hymn we sing at Easter on Good Friday, "Sing My Tongue." (Pange Lingua) It was written by Venantius Honorius Fortunatus (530-609), a Roman. He wrote it for a procession that brought a part of the true Cross to Queen Radegunda in 570. (source:

All within a lowly manger,

lo, a tender babe He lies!

see his gentle Virgin Mother

lull to sleep his infant cries!

while the limbs of God incarnate

round with swathing bands she ties.

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Sue and John