Las Pastores de Belen

The shepherds, along with the Hermit and the Archangel Michael in shepherd girl disguise, head off for Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus, singing as they go.

Lucifer comes out to see what the singing is about.

Lucifer, at right, tries to persuade the hermit to break off the trip to Bethlehem in favor of marrying a young shepherd girl.

Lucifer and Michael duel. Lucifer has no idea who the shepherd girl is and she’s just trying to run him off.

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2 Responses to "Las Pastores de Belen"

Karen Rhodes says:

11 January 2016 at 21:59

Love this post, and the photos are gorgeous. Sorry you didn’t get the Pastorela, of course. The title reminds me of a Christmas carol I learned in high school, and that a classmate and I brought to our choir practice. The choir director was planning an “international” Christmas program of music — the French carol “Jeannette Isabella” (but we only had the words in English), “Adeste Fideles,” “Stille Nacht, Heilege Nacht,” and the Spanish carol “Pastores a Belen.” If you want, you can see the lyrics here: http://karenaboutgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas%20carols .
1. rcmckee says:
  
  30 January 2016 at 18:31
  
  Pretty sure that’s one of the songs the shepherds were singing “on the road” during the play, but they weren’t mic’ed and they weren’t loud so it was difficult to hear. I do remember hearing it a long long LONG time ago in Spanish class in high school, and it was lovely as long as I only pretended to sing along…. 😉

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