January 6 marks Three Kings Day, a key date in the religious and cultural calendar in many countries with a Catholic ...
Many people associate the wise men with Christmas, but January 6 is traditionally the day in the Church calendar that ...
Also called Three Kings' Day or Epiphany Day, the holiday is often marked by a traditional sweet bread known as Rosca de ...
Scholars have provided different interpretations of who the 'wise men' were who visited Jesus soon after his birth. Christophe Lehenaff/Collection Moment via Getty images Christmas Nativity scenes ...
The Gospel of Matthew tells that, not long after Jesus’s birth, three Wise Men appeared to bestow upon him gifts befitting of the Christ. Kings in their own land, the Wise Men got a memo from God that ...
They dealt with distractions and hardships just as we do, but displayed unwavering faith in their search for the Christ Child ...
Matthew chapter 2 tells us the story of the wise men: “After Jesus was born in Bethlehem … Magi from the east came … saw His star … and have come to worship Him … they saw the Child with His mother ...
Source: Adobe stock image by lukbar, licensed by Ravi Chandra As the legend and Gospel of Matthew have it, sometime soon after baby Jesus was born in Bethlehem, three wise men of the East came bearing ...
An image of the Magi is featured on one of the Vatican's 2021 Christmas stamps. The images on the stamps were painted by Adam Piekarski, a homeless man from Poland currently living in Rome. (CNS ...
Christmas Nativity scenes around the world feature a familiar cast of characters: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, an angel or two, some barnyard animals, shepherds and, of course, the three wise men led by a ...