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2 unusual facts about Biblical Magi


Ibi, Spain

Some of the most important monuments in Ibi are the Catholic Church of the Transfiguration and the monument to the Three Wise Men, possibly the only one in the world.

When the Music's Over

The part where Morrison screams, "Persian Night! See the Light! Save Us! Jesus! Save Us!" is a reference to the Biblical Magi, while the lyric "The scream of the butterfly" is a reference to a 1965 movie with the same name.


Cavalcade of Magi

The Magi (of which tradition holds there were three: Melchior, Gaspar, and Baltasar) ride through the streets, as their page boys throw candies to children.

Hrastovlje

Scenes from the Book of Genesis also decorate the nave, images of the Apostles are painted in niches in the apse, with other saints and prophets as well as a Passion series and the journey and adoration of the Magi.

Jan Kryštof Liška

In Doksany he painted St. Augustine, at the monastery in Munich Hradište he painted St. Anthony, St. Francis and the Three Kings and for the Plasy monastery he painted St. Magdalene fresco (1692).

The Other Wise Man

The story is an addition and expansion of the account of the Biblical Magi, recounted in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.


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