Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh

Monthly Archives: November 2015

The Crèche

CAMPAIGN DONORS SUPPORT PITTSBURGH CRÈCHE

Sacrificial gifts from more than 44,000 families and individuals are helping save a local Christmas tradition—the Pittsburgh Crèche.

The board of directors of Our Campaign for The Church Alive!, Inc. approved a $50,000 evangelization grant toward the annual cost to assemble, maintain and take down the 30-ton structure, the world’s only authorized replica of the Nativity Crèche that Pope John Paul II commissioned for the Vatican.

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