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This article contextualizes the emergence of the figure of the Sibyl in church ceremony and its incorporation as a character in Nativity and Epiphany plays, where the Sibyl Tiburtina appears merged with the Sibyl Eritrea, who talks with the emperor, and announces the advent of the Messiah and the signs of Doomsday. As a textual example, an edition of the fifteenth-century play “Lo Fet de la Sibil·la ab l’Emperador Cèsar de Sant Bartomeu de Bas” (Osona) is included.