Based on the old hymn. Commission for Presbyterian Church in Livingston, Alabama. Based on a scene at Caritas, Alabama.

ARTIST'S NOTE:

It was near Christmas and I went to one of my favorite painting places, Caritas Alabama, where a girl saw a vision of Mary. There is a mission there in her honor and Mary's visit. The beautiful building has a lovely staircase with Marble angels. As I was painting I saw an old Alabama stable and put that in the work. Maybe the painting would have been better artistically without the stable; but to me the angel was heralding over the mountains of Alabama the song,

"Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born."