It was on Christmas Eve 800 years ago when St. Francis of Assisi, in a cave near Greccio, Italy, created the first ever live Nativity scene. It is believed that his inspiration to do a live representation of the birth of Jesus came from his stay in the Holy Land in the years 1219 and 1220. Seeing firsthand the holy sites of our Savior’s birth, life, death, and Resurrection made them feel all the…