Epiphany (holiday) facts for kids

Epiphany is a Christian holiday or festival on January 6. It celebrates the revelation of the Christ child to the Gentiles, when the Magi or wise men visited Bethlehem to see Jesus, by following a star. It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 2.

Images for kids

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  Adoration of the Magi by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 17th century

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  Adoration of the Magi by El Greco, 1568, Museo Soumaya, Mexico City

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  Holy (Epiphany) water vessel from 15th–16th centuries. It is found on Hisar near the town of Leskovac, Serbia. Photographed in National museum of Leskovac.

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  The Three Magi: Balthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar, from a late-6th-century mosaic at the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy

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  K † M † B † 2009 written on a door of a rectory in a Czech village, to bless the house by Christ

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  Theophany Crucession in Bulgaria. The priests are going to throw a wooden cross in the Yantra river. Believers will then jump into the icy waters to recover the cross.

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  Greek Orthodox bishop at the Great Blessing of Waters on Theophany, releasing the cross off the Glenelg Jetty, South Australia, for one of the swimmers below to retrieve

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  A traditional Bulgarian all-male horo dance in ice-cold water on Theophany

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  Children in Flanders celebrating Driekoningen

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  Orthodox priests dancing during the celebration of Timkat

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  Star singers visit President Karl Carstens (1982).

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  Traditional house blessing in chalk, written by Sternsinger on the door beam of the home

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  Diyas (lights) are used to celebrate Epiphany in some Kerala Christian households.

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  Epiphany procession in the capital of North Macedonia Skopje near Stone Bridge on the Vardar river in the early 1920s

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  Feast of Día de Reyes in Peru

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  Star boys. Postage stamp depicting traditional Christmas & Epiphany star singing in Moldova.

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  An ice hole is cut in the form of a cross in Russia to celebrate the Epiphany.

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  King cakes of the type locally called "French style" on display at the chain bakery/restaurant "La Madeline" branch in Carrollton, New Orleans. They come with cardboard "crowns" to be worn by whoever gets the slice with the token and becomes monarch of the event.

See also

In Spanish: Epifanía para niños