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

But how did they get there? According to Christian tradition, the Three Wise Men followed the Star of Bethlehem to find Jesus. (DW/Dmitry Rukhlenko/Imagebroker/picture alliance) Many Romans ...

In the western Christian ... but men of wisdom and priestly status, who were likely to be followers of the Zoroastrian faith, skilled in the art of dream interpretation. The story of the wise ...

Dec. 22 -- Just as the biblical three wise men from the East once did, 15 pilgrims have been traveling across field and fountain, moor and mountain to make it to the Christian Holy Land this ...

I am a scholar of early Christian literature who has spent years researching and writing about the wise men.I maintain that their identity in Matthew’s Gospel is ultimately more mysterious and ...

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.” ...

Although the three visitors are popularly referred to as kings, in the Bible they are rather described as wise men, in some translations astrologers or magi — priests specialized in the study of ...

Christmas nativity scenes around the world feature a familiar cast of characters: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, an angel or two, some barnyard animals, shepherds and, of course, the three wise men led by a ...