Veritas, the religious bookshop and publisher of the Irish Bishops’ Conference, has donated a large nativity set to St Raphael’s Special School in Celbridge, Co. Kildare.
Since 1963, the school has catered for pupils aged 5 to 18 years with moderate, severe and profound intellectual disability, and for pupils with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Kathy Waldron, principal of St Raphael’s, expressed her gratitude on behalf of the school’s 64 pupils who she said would “greatly benefit from seeing the nativity scene, which we hope will help them to visualise and understand the Christmas story”.