Just in time for Christmas.

A Manhattan priest gave a New York City museum the greatest holiday gift this season — donating his sprawling, Nativity scene collection that he spent a lifetime cultivating from around the globe.

Father Louis Scurti, 80, gifted more than 100 little wooden figurines of Jesus, handcrafted angels and antique Wise Men to the Italian American Museum in Lower Manhattan, in what he said was a “bittersweet” moment.

“It was a joy to locate them and to know that they will be shared by more than the Scurti family,” the reverend told The Post.

“They have tons of visitors every year, and they have children going to the museum, and that’ll be a great education and exposure for them,” he said of the cultural organization, which called his gift a classic symbol of the It

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