Walk to Manger Square & Church of the Nativity

Video of our guide sharing the history on the Church of the Nativity

It was a long wait to go down to the lower level 
where there is an opening to the cave.

The lower cave level, 
site of the birth of 
Lord Jesus Christ. 

  The grotto of the Nativity.  According to tradition, the place where Christ was born of the Virgin Mary. 

 

 St Jerome who lived here and translated the original Hebrew and 

Aramaic text of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate.