Newborn Baby Found in Church Nativity Scene

danjoseph | November 25, 2015
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The holiday season may just be getting started, but something happened in New York City on Monday that some are calling a "Christmas Miracle."

A newborn baby, with its umbilical cord still attached, was found inside of a church in Queens after a church custodian heard the newborn infant's cries coming from the church's nativity scene.

Jose Moran, 60, a maintenance worker for the church, found the baby on Monday afternoon only an hour after the nativity scene had been erected. 

"I looked around and didn’t see anyone," said Moran. “I followed the cries. I walked to the little nativity home we had installed inside the church… I couldn’t believe my eyes. The baby was wrapped in towels. He still had his umbilical cord. He was next to the Virgin (Mary).”

Police are currently trying to find the child's mother but authorities say the baby is healthy and is now under the care of child services. The child has been dubbed "Baby Jesus."

There is footage from a nearby security camera which shows a woman walking into the church with an infant wrapped in towels and walking out without the baby. The mother could face charges if she is found.

"God works in mysterious ways," Father Christopher Ryan Heanue, one of the priests at the church, said to the Daily News. “[The child’s mother] must have been in a difficult place in her life.”

Hat Tip: Buzzfeed

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