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Jim,
Aha! Now I too have had an epiphany -- albeit one with a lower-case "e".
Thank-you so much.
--Christopher
== Message from Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> ==
The *primary* feast of the Magi, arguably, would be
Epiphany. According to Gertrud Schiller, Iconography of Christian
Art, vol. 1, p. 95: Besides the gospel which records the appearance
of the star to the Magi, the liturgical readings for Epiphany include
Isaiah 60, 1-4, in which it is stated "the Lord shall shine upon you
and over you shall his glory appear; and the nations shall march
towards your light and their kings to your sunrise". The church
connected not only this passage but also Psalm 72, 10 ("The kings of
Tarshish and the islands shall bring gifts") with the Adoration of
the Magi. From as early as the 3rd century, interpretation of this
verse of the psalm as prophesying the Adoration of the Magi resulted
in the Wise Men frequently being identified with the Kings. But this
equation did not find expression in the visual arts until the 10th
century. The _Cave of Treasures_, a 6th-century Syrian legend,
describes the Magi as Persian priest-kings.
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