The governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila, Manolo Jiménez Salinas, pointed out that on December 24, on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis will place the image of the Child Jesus in the Coahuila nativity scene installed inside St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, to celebrate the Christmas 2024.
Vatican News reports that, for 16 years, Mexico has celebrated Christmas in the Vatican. And this year, it was the state of Coahuila’s turn.
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Jiménez explained that the birth was inaugurated at the altar of Gregory the Great, on Sunday, December 8, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
“It has very representative symbols of our state such as the Saltillo serape (typical colorful fabric, rectangular in shape), as does the cathedral. On Sunday, a group of matachinas from La Laguna were here, dancing, and for the first time, since this Mexican Christmas project was carried out in the Vatican, this activity is being carried out inside St. Peter’s Basilica,” the governor indicated. in a Vatican News video.
A colorfully dressed person with a mask and colorful outfits is called a matachín. In the case of those who danced on Sunday in San Pedro, the cloak they carried on their backs with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe stands out, whose festival was celebrated on December 12.
The governor highlighted that, as part of Christmas in Coahuila, you can see outside the Basilica of San Pedro a Christmas pine tree with characteristic Mexican decorations, as well as “representative images of the tourist and gastronomic places of our state.”
At the nativity, the governor said, you can see “the protagonists of every nativity, who are Mary and Joseph, and of course the Holy Father is going to place the Child God in the central part on the 24th.”
During this time in the Vatican “Coahuila will be present and that fills us with great pride” since “this birth is a work of art from Mexico to the world.”
At the end of Christmas, the manger can be seen in some other Roman church, indicates Vatican News.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.