This year, as many as 450 Christmas scenes were set up in French Lucéram. This is another year of tradition that has lasted for more than a 4th of a century, which turns this tiny town into the real centre of Christmas scenes in France. Tradition as a evidence to the roots of France and its spiritual and cultural origins.
In France, “freethinkers” and the left-wing League for the Defence of Human Rights have been trying to administratively banish specified installations from public space as “infringement of the principles of the secularity of the state”. For now, however, the traditions of Christmas Luceram are a clear point on the map of Catholicism.
Unfortunately, the case of Christmas Nativity scenes, the administrative courts in France issue various judgments. A week before Christmas 2024 the Montpellier administrative court rejected 2 applications for the usage of "interim measures" (removement of the nativity scene from the mercenary and punishment for all day of delay), filed by the League of Human Rights (LDH). In the city of Beaucaire, where the mayor of the National Unity (RN), the Freethinkers and the LDH have won... Not exactly.
Initially, the court deemed it an urgent ‘need to enforce the principles of laicism’ and so ordered the removal of the Christmas Nativity scene from the hall of the town hall within 48 hours, under a punishment of EUR 1000 per day of delay.
Mer Beaucaire, however, did not lay down his weapon. He held a referendum on 22 December in his town. Did the participants vote in favour or against leaving the show in the hall of the town hall? The people of Beaucaire mobilized and long queues were set up for the premises where the referendum took place. The consequence was easy to predict. A large majority voted "ZA" leaving the Christmas Nativity scene. Mer announced that the nursery would stay at the town hall until 2 February, and the meroc is ready to pay the punishment of 1000 euro for each day of his stay in the building.
So far, Luceram, a village in the Mediterranean Alps, has no specified problems, which presents centuries-old traditions in a unique and wonderful way. They were renewed in 1998. At that time 33 Provence nativity scenes were set up in a village of 1,200 inhabitants. This year there are over 450 of them and have besides become a tourist attraction of the region
“Freethinkers” have yet to arrive here with their lawsuits, and if so, the inhabitants have a tradition that dates back centuries before the entry into force of the 1905 Law on the Separation of religion and the State.
The full village, including councillors and mayors, is active in setting up and building nativity scenes. The municipality has even created 11 stages of the way to research and research the nativity scenes. Tens of thousands of people come here all year. – In addition to the tradition and pride we feel in sustaining it, it is besides a crucial origin of tourism revenue. “Mer Lucéram, Michel Calmet, says. – We have the right to defend our Christian roots – adds.
W Lucéram is simply a church and 7 chapels. Residents don't realize the bans on the installation of nativity scenes. – Shining must besides mean tolerance “The people who want to ban our nativity scenes should besides be forced to work on December 25.” "Freethinkers" have already tried to influence the mayor in 2017 and the dispute almost ended in court. However, the cultural success of the event did not give the “godless” a chance to win in courts.
The continuation of nativity scenes in France is simply a symbol of hope for a revival of tradition and return to the actual roots of this country. In 2024 there were more specified “signs” than the renovation and beginning of the burnt Notre-Dame Cathedral, to the ever-increasing number of adults asking for baptism. all year, a fresh evidence has been set here for respective years, and it happens in dechristianized France, where the organization Church is weakened by scandals, and progressiveism and consumerism play the function of “new religion”. In 2024 in France, the sacrament of baptism was adopted by 7135 adults and 5025 teenagers, an increase of 120 percent over the last decade. Many of these people were just talking about the experience of the Notre-Dame fire...
Bogdan Dobosh
