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St. Peter Tabernacle
My tabernacle is made from granite and is covered with lapis lazuli and jade. It has a bronze door on which I made a bas-relief of the Nativity. A priest quite rightly asked me why I chose this subject for a tabernacle; after all, the tabernacle holds the one sacrifice of Calvary – not apparently anything to do with His birth. I had already sculpted a crucifix for St. Peter's in the bas-relief to the right, and it seemed redundant to make another. Also, Jesus was born in a town whose name translates as "The House of Bread," and after He was born, He was laid in a manger or food trough.
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