Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000. ... Here, it's the annunciation, as the angel announces to Mary, she'll give birth to the Messiah.

Dec. 13—Música Antigua de Albuquerque sets itself apart from other holiday performances with its repertoire of Christmas music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance using period instruments.

"In the early Middle Ages, ... The Virgin asked an angel to bring back the doubting midwife's hands. And so it came to pass. Thousands of years later, the stories continue.