The Manger
A town with no room, two lights going down to a cave, a light in the manger, the star over it, and the ox and the ass at the door. Scroll to watch it.
And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped Him in swaddling-clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7, as St Augustine gives it
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, and My people hath not understood.
Isaiah 1:3, as St Justin Martyr gives it
adore the Birth by which thou wast loosed from the chains of thy birth, and honour little Bethlehem, which hath led thee back to Paradise; and worship the manger through which thou, being without sense, wast fed by the Word. Know as Isaiah bids thee, thine Owner, like the ox, and like the ass thy Master’s crib
Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration on the Theophany XVII