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'True reason of Christmas': Woman shares extensive nativity collection with public

While Marielos Bond said that she loves all her nativities equally, her daughter, Hilma Helena Bond Herrera, likes the nativity with cats as Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Wise Men. Her other favorites include a nativity made out of corn husks, one from lace and another from the ashes of Mount Saint Helen.

Marielos Bond Nativity — While Marielos Bond said that she loves all her nativities equally, her daughter, Hilma Helena Bond Herrera, likes the nativity with cats as Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Wise Men. Her other favorites include a nativity made out of corn husks, one from lace and another from the ashes of Mount Saint Helen.

More than 600 nativities, painstakingly placed with love and reverence, lined tables at Saint Brendan’s Catholic Church on Saturday, Dec. 18 and Sunday, Dec. 19.