Crèche Animée de Bressuire

Over 50 years ago, the fertile mind of Abbot Rochard yielded something unique; the animated manger is at once a show, treasure and a monument to his ingeniousness. Since 2007, it has belonged to the town of Bressuire, where a team of impassioned volunteers has brought it back to life in an original, historic site. The 30-minute spectacle is both fascinating and astonishing; it is an animated fresco representing a village in Palestine two thousand years ago. 120 lifelike characters are made to move and the scenes succeed each other with perfectly synchronized sound and light. The inhabitants' lives are rendered, and the Christmas message recalled...