Adoration of the Shepherds

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title: Adoration of the Shepherds
text: Adoration of the Shepherds is the name of numerous paintings depicting an episode in the story of Jesus's nativity in which shepherds are near witnesses to his birth in Bethlehem, arriving soon after he is actually born. The episode is recounted, or at least implied, in the Gospel of Luke and follows on from the annunciation to the shepherds, in which the shepherds are summoned by an angel to the scene of the birth. Like the episode preceding it, the adoration is a common subject in art, where i
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description: Episode in the story of Jesus's nativity
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Shepherds
date created: 2005-07-31T21:32:58Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T00:03:20Z
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