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As the Magi came bearing gifts, so do we also; gifts that relieve want, gifts that are sweet and fragrant with friendship, gifts that breathe love, gifts that mean service, gifts inspired still by the star that shone over the City of David nearly two thousand years ago.
Source: tatoeba (7564571)
The religious holiday of Epiphany is also celebrated in some Western Christian churches as Three Kings Day, which marks the visit of the Magi, or three wise men, to the baby Jesus, and closes out the Christmas season.
Source: tatoeba (8433355)
Leonardo Da Vinci is known today as a renowned painter, architect, inventor and scientist. Historical accounts say he was also a procrastinator and he never finished a number his projects including his Adoration of the Magi and perhaps even the Mona Lisa. To explain this behavior, a researcher from Kings College, London proposed a new theory — the great Da Vinci may have had Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD.
Source: tatoeba (12213945)
A rich Tabernacle where is kept the head of Saint Euſtorgio, and the Tomb of the three Magi, with this inſcription. Sepulchrum Trium Magorum, where lay the Bodies of thoſe Magi, which were brought hither by Saint Euſtorgio, in Anno 330. when he came laſt out of the Eaſt, but many yeers after, this City being deſtroyed by Fedrick Barbaroſſa, in Anno 1163.
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