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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.


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  • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Adoration of the Magi - Google Art Project

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

  • 7222 Adoración de los Reyes Magos

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

  • Nova stalna postavka Narodnog muzeja u Leskovcu 01

    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

  • Theophany Crucession in Bulgaria

    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.

  • Cross being thrown at Theophany

    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

  • Driekoningen

    Children in Flanders celebrating Driekoningen

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    Orthodox priests dancing during the celebration of Timkat

  • Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F064527-0016, Bundespräsident empfängt Sternsinger

    Star singers visit President Karl Carstens (1982).

  • Sternsinger Segensbitte Regen

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

  • Pindi Perunnal 2019 In Kunnamkulam 03

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

  • Vodoci vo Skopje stara

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

  • Lascar Día de Reyes Magos procession (Celebration of Epiphany) (Ollantaytambo) (4578168158)

    Feast of Día de Reyes in Peru

  • Stamp of Moldova 341

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

  • RIAN archive 550903 Epiphany celebration in Maritime Territory

    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

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