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Q. When Joseph and Mary came to the inn in Bethlehem, the innkeeper said that there was no room and told them to “go on.” That night an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in his dream and said, “It is you who shall go on and on.” Is this true? — J.B., Pennsylvania.A. Not according to the Gospel accounts of the birth of our Lord. In St. Luke’s account of the Nativity, he makes no mention of the innkeeper, but says only that Mary wrapped Jesus “in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (2:7). There are no recorded words of the innkeeper.The next time an angel…Continue Reading