{"id":265076,"date":"2017-12-23T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/?post_type=post&amp;p=265076"},"modified":"2017-12-23T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:05:02","slug":"incredible-lithuania-gives-francis-the-worlds-smallest-nativity-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2017\/12\/incredible-lithuania-gives-francis-the-worlds-smallest-nativity-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible: Lithuania gives Francis the world&#8217;s smallest nativity scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/nanoscale-nativity-scene-nanojesus-vilnius-3d-printing-lithuania\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazing:<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP1\">There\u2019s an elaborate nativity scene in Cathedral Square in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It depicts everything from the baby Jesus to the three wise men and a collection of animals, including sheep and a camel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgtu.lt\/about-university\/news\/the-worlds-smallest-nativity-scene-created-in-lithuania\/73472?nid=290716\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">Researchers at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University<\/a> (VGTU) have now rendered that scene in nanoscale proportions and nicknamed the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanojesus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">NanoJesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP2\">The team behind the nano-nativity says it\u2019s the world\u2019s smallest, and they\u2019ve submitted it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/bonkers-new-guinness-world-records-2016-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">Guinness World Records<\/a> for certification. The scene is 10,000 times smaller than the real-world nativity it\u2019s based on.<\/p>\n<p>The entire nativity could sit on a human eyelash, and the baby Jesus is smaller than a human cell.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis received one of the scenes on Friday as a gift from Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/nanoscale-nativity-scene-nanojesus-vilnius-3d-printing-lithuania\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Read more.<\/strong><\/a> And watch the video below to see how it was done.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lithuania welcomes Pope with the smallest gift ever #NanoJesus\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qk_rlVlw5-g?start=27&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing: There\u2019s an elaborate nativity scene in Cathedral Square in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. 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