Operation Christmas Child®

Explaining The Bible on Instagram: "The painting Santa Francesca Romana Holding the Christ Child, created around 1445 by the Italian artist Antonio del Massaro da Viterbo (also known as Pastura), is a small tempera-on-wood panel with a gold ground, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Robert Lehman Collection. It depicts Saint Frances of Rome (1384–1440), the noble Roman mystic and founder of the Olivetan Oblates, tenderly cradling the infant Christ in her arms. This intimate, devotional imag