11.   In Manger Square, tourists are outnumbered by construction workers raising clouds of dust as they install new stone tiles in time for Christmas.

12.   In the morning, workers had been clearing soil from the vault floor and stone tiles were piled up nearby.

13.   Some held their hands in prayer before the stone tiles marking the perimeter of the burial plots.

14.   Some stood and held their hands before them in prayer, before the stone tiles marking the perimeter of the burial plots.

15.   The workmen are laying large, square stone tiles that are to cover the football-field-sized square.

16.   Two yellow tractors clear away rubble as workmen lay large, square stone tiles that are to cover the football-field-sized square.

17.   Even as they did so, more kids were behind nearby shops, prying stone tiles off their facades and breaking them into slingshot-sized rocks.