Many Christmas carols make mention of the three kings ... In the Bible, they are not called kings, and their number is not specified—instead they are “wise men from the East.” ...

The wise men have become essential to the iconography of Christmas, but as religious ... Start, for example, with the hymns of the Magi, like “We Three Kings,” and why they are called kings.

The “three kings ... of the wise men has inspired artists for generations, as evidenced by this painting by Gerard David a 16th-century Dutch painter (Public domain) The magi are also ...

According to the Bible, although the birth of Jesus is celebrated on Christmas Day (Dec. 25), the Three Wise Men ... magi know that children live there and to leave them candy and gifts. Three ...

Surrounding Mary and Joseph and Jesus’ creche (left vacant until Christmas) were three large, glowing figures: the Magi. I loved dashing ... And what qualified them as wise men?

In this Gospel we follow the Magi in their journey of faith. As magi, they followed the faint stars, distant points of light; as wise men ... until this point in the Christmas story, only Jews ...

The manger scene is an endearing aspect of Christmas ... the Magi. Matthew reports they came “from the east” to worship the “king of the Jews.” The number of “wise men” is not ...

The Cologne Cathedral houses the Shrine of the Three Kings, a reliquary which tradition says holds the bones of the Biblical ...

Some Western Christian churches know the feast day as Three Kings Day. It recalls the visit of three Magi, or wise men, to the infant ... It is the 12th day after Christmas and closes the ...

(Courtesy Photo) The identities of the biblical Magi, or the three wise men ... gentlemen are known by many titles — kings, wise men, astrologers, and Magi. Rather than assigning them a ...

According to tradition, it marks the visit of the Three Wise Men to baby Jesus ... For this reason, Three Kings' Day became the Christmas Day on which family and friends exchange gifts.