The number of magi, their ethnicity and their names — and for that matter, what "magi" are — is mentioned nowhere. Yet this is the scene we see, in every crèche, in every school play, in ...

You might be packing up your Nativity scene in a flurry of New Year’s Resolution-inspired organization, but in the religious calendar, the Magi are arriving fashionably late.

Although Gospel accounts of the Nativity do not specify the number of the Magi who came to pay homage to Christ, they do mention three gifts — gold, frankincense and myrrh — which is likely to have ...

A tableau of sculptures or living beings, the Nativity scene (as well as the closely related Adoration of the Magi) traces its origins back some 1,500 years.

How St. Francis created the Nativity scene, with a miraculous event in 1223. Story by Vanessa Corcoran, Georgetown University ... Matthew tells the story of the three wise men, or Magi, ...

Magi Time: Cathedral's nativity scene grows as Christmas goes on. Eleanore Osborne Correspondent. The Feast of the Epiphany was marked Friday, Jan. 6, by Christians around the world, ...

He said: "On December 21, for the first time since the Middle Ages, mankind can see a celestial event perhaps quite similar to what the magi or wise men experienced when they saw 'his star' at its ...

ONLINE EXTRAS Plain Dealer Graphic: The "Magi' Revealed" The approach of Christmas inevitably brings attention to Old Master depictions of the Nativity and the adoration of the infant Jesus by ...

The afternoon celebration on Jan. 6 brought together a small crowd of believers, young and old, in the Latin Church of St. Catherine, part of the complex of the Basilica of the Nativity.

We all know the image. Baby Jesus in the manger. Around him, shepherds, animals, angels and three wise men: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Two of them are white, one of them Black. Above them ...