Epiphany (holiday)
Epiphany is a Christian holiday or festival on January 6. It celebrates the revelation of the Christ child to the Gentiles, when the Magi ("wise men") visited Bethlehem to see Jesus, by following a star. It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 2. Epiphany is included in the Christmas time.
Epiphany (holiday) Media
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Adoration of the Magi by El Greco (1568, Museo Soumaya, Mexico City)
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Adoration of the Magi by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (17th century)
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Epiphany celebration in Gemona del Friuli, 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. Christians of various denominations, including Catholics, Lutherans and Anglicans practice the chalking the door on Epiphanytide.
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Baptism of Christ fresco by Giotto di Bondone, c. 1305 (Cappella Scrovegni, Padua, Italy)
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Russian icon of the Theophany (Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, 1497)
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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
