10 Facts About Christ Child

Christ Child, known as Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, the Divine Child, Child Jesus, the Holy Child, and Santo Nino, refers to Jesus Christ from his nativity to age 12.

Depictions as a baby with the Virgin Mary, known as Madonna and Christ Child, are iconographical types in Eastern and Western traditions.

Christ Child was a popular subject in European wood sculpture beginning in the 1300s.

Christ Child was well-known in Spain under the title montanesino after the santero sculptor Juan Martinez Montanes began the trend.

Colonial images of the Christ child began to wear vestments, a pious practice developed by the santero culture in later colonial years, carrying the depiction of holding the globus cruciger, a bird symbolizing a soul or the Holy Spirit, or various paraphernalia related to its locality or region.

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Symbolism of the Christ Child Jesus in art reached its apex during the Renaissance: the Holy Family was a central theme in the works of Leonardo da Vinci and many other masters.

Several historically significant images of the Christ Child have been crowned by the pope, namely the Bambino Gesu of Arenzano and the Santo Bambino of Aracoeli, the Infant Jesus of Prague, and the Santo Nino de Cebu .

Christ Child originally wrote 29 verses in Scottish Gaelic, but the popular English translation is limited to five.

Christ Child then introduced Jean-Jacques Olier, founder of the Sulpicians, to Sister Marguerite.

Christ Child Society was founded in 1885 in Washington, D C, by Mary Virginia Merrick, as a small relief organization to aid local underprivileged children.