Master AB German School Adoration of the Magic 1530
The gifts from these men from the East are noted to have brought impressive gifts to the new baby Jesus. Then, like now, gold represented wealth & power. Frankincense was a type of incense & perfume. Myrrh is the “outlier,” according to Dr. Kristin Swenson, an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. It’s been used as a perfume & in ancient Egypt, in embalming processes, & which some Christians have interpreted as foreshadowing Jesus’s death.
January 6th is observed as a Christain church festival called Epiphany in commemoration of the arrival of the Magi at the end of their long journey from the Far East, in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. In Western Christain churches, Epiphany portrays the 1st manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. In some Eastern Christain Churches, Epiphany celebrates baptism of Christ. (The word Epiphany also defines "a revealing scene or moment," & may also be seen as "an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being.")
