FREDERICO BAROCCI
Yes, of course, there was a cat in the Bethlehem stable. How else would the stable been safe for a baby, at that amazing moment in history
So, it's not in the Bible account. Does that mean it wasn't there? That though there were oxen and a donkey, those were the only animals.
Not so. There would have been the pigeons or doves, roosting during the night up in the rafters. And, of course, there would have been mice and probably some rats, picking up any spare grain left by the oxen.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
There would have been the insects too. Probably some beetles, ants, moths and butterflies in hibernation. There might even have been some hibernating wall lizards that winter.
It was an ordinary stable with ordinary creatures great and small. And in the centre of them all, a new born baby.
REMBRANDT
Of course there were cats. The great painters knew that.
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