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>> The tenth century transformed them from wise men into kings
What is the source for this? According to the entry for 6 January (p. 22)
in the Oxford Companion to the Year (OUP 1999), co-authored by list member
Bonnie Blackburn [plug, plug!!], "as early as the third century [the Magi]
are taken as kings fulfilling the prophecy at Isa. 60:3".
Also, what sources give 23 July as the feast day of the Magi? Again
according to the Oxford Companion to the Year (pp. 21-22, 540), the Magi
are commemorated on 6 January in the West, by most Orthodox on 25 December,
and by some Orthodox on 30 December.
--Christopher
== Original Message ==
The Magi (1st cent.) The Wise Men appear in Matthew 2: 1-12 as the first
gentiles to believe in Christ. By the time of Origen they were
traditionally numbered three; it may have been an Irish exegete who first
named them Melchior Casper, and Balthasar. The tenth century transformed
them from wise men into kings. It became common practice in the Middle
Ages to depict one as an old man, one middle-aged, and one young; the
practice of giving one African features dates from the fifteenth century.
Frederick Barbarossa, who received the Magi's relics in 11643, had them
enshrined in Cologne Cathedral, where they remain today.
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