No Place like Home

Saturday, November 26, 2011 – Sunday, January 29, 2012
Roesch Library, 1st floor gallery
For library hours, call 937-229-4234 or visit online.
(Closed December 23 – 26, and December 31 – January 2)

Bridging the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas – when “home” is a focus for us all, this exhibit presents 40 sets from around the world made of various materials that include a physical structure such as a stable, a house, a barn, a hut, a tent – Christ’s first home. The meaning of crèche, crib, and Krippe, presepe and Belen alludes to safety and warmth, to shelter and plenty. Bethlehem has always been “the house of bread”, and Christ’s manger sacred space.

Saturday, November 26, 2011 – and throughout 2012 Marian Library – 7th floor of the Roesch Library building
Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.;
Saturdays, noon – 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1:00 – 5 p.m.
(Closed December 23 – 26, and December 31 – January 2)
Visit some of our “monumental” crèches bathed in special Christmas light, and enjoy a sampling of all the various Dayton area exhibit themes.

The Larish Nativity Collection

Saturday, November 26, 2011 – Sunday, January 29, 2012
Location: Roesch Library, 2nd floor
For library hours, call 937-229-4234 or visit online
(Closed December 23 – 26, and December 31 – January 2)

The Nativity collections of John (a UD alumnus) and Rose Larish, Rochester, New York, were given to UD’s Marian Library-International Marian Research Institute in 2005. Our second floor display will feature over 100 sets from this fine collection. As with our first floor exhibit, many of these pieces also feature structures depicting the first physical home of Christ. The Larish collection is part of the Marian Library’s traveling exhibit program which expands the reach of our collections into many communities.

A Southern Charm: Santos, Bultos, and Nichos

Saturday, November 26, 2011 – Sunday, January 29, 2012
Seventh Floor Marian Library Gallery
Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Closed December 23 – 26, and December 31 – January 2

A display of religious and Nativity art from the vast Marian Library collections will give visitors an opportunity to enjoy the Southern charm of Latin religiosity and its treasured expressions.