Children in Italy anxiously await gifts from La Befana on January 6th, Epiphany, believing she brings gifts for good children and punishment for bad ones based on a legend of her refusing the Three Wise Men. The popularity of nativity scenes originated in Italy when St. Francis of Assisi had one created in Greccio to depict Jesus' birth. In Rome, Christmas Eve starts with cannon fire from Castel St. Angelo and ends with an elaborate feast after a 24-hour fast, with small presents drawn from an Urn of Fate.