A visitor to Austria and Germany recently sent me some photos of Christmas decorations in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, Germany. Obviously most churches would be dressed up in their best outfits during the Christmas season, and all Christmas artefacts and memorabilia are displayed for parishioners and visitors to admire.
The first photo shows an old baby Jesus surrounded by 6 angels, the second one an altar piece showing a painting of the Conversion of St. Paul on the road to Damascus, and the third one a relic flanked by two golden angels. Passau is on the border of Austria and Germany, close to the river Danube in lower Bavaria. It has a population of 50,000 of whom 12,000 are students at the University of Passau. Adolf Hitler lived here with his family as a young child between 1892 and 1894.
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