Epiphany is celebrated 12 days
after Christmas on January 6 (or January 19th for some Orthodox
Church who have Christmas on January 7) and is the time when Christians
remember the Wise Men (also sometimes called the Three Kings) who visited
Jesus.
Epiphany, (from Greek epiphaneia, “manifestation”), commemorates the
first manifestation of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, represented by the Magi, and
the manifestation of his divinity, as it occurred at his baptism in the
Jordan River and at his first miracle, at Cana in Galilee. Epiphany, is
one of the three principal and oldest festival days of the Christian church
(the other two are Easter and Christmas), Roman Catholics, Lutherans,
Anglicans, and other Western churches observe the feast on January 6, while
some Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Epiphany on January 19, since
their Christmas Eve falls on January 6.
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