This beautiful hand carved olive wood masterpiece represents the "Flight to Egypt Journey" after events that that occured. 
The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egyptwith Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him.