Round 12: Tossup 14
In the Philippines, statues of this figure are ritually undressed, dipped in water, and then redressed during the “Hubo mass” that occurs at the end of Cebu’s Sinulog festival. Small wooden statuettes of this figure from the Flemish city of Mechelen and Prague depict him holding a globus cruciger. In an apocryphal text, this figure kills a child for dispersing the pools of water he’d used to mold twelve animated clay sparrows. Plastic depictions of this figure are baked within sweet rosca de reyes breads in a popular Mexican tradition. Simeon and the prophetess Anna praised God upon encountering this figure, who later goes missing for three days during the Disputation. Epiphany marks the day when gifts of frankincense and gold were brought to this figure. For 10 points, nativity scenes depict what figure lying in a manger? ■END■