MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Frankincense and myrrh are often presented as part of the Christmas story. But what are frankincense and myrrh? And when were they given to Jesus by the Magi, or wise men?
It’s a myrrh-acle! A bargain-bin Mary-and-Jesus print is dripping with divine drama in Honolulu — and believers swear it’s more than just sticky. The $20 image, reportedly rescued from a Toronto ...
A scared image of Mary and a young Jesus has captured global attention after it mysteriously started producing streams of myrrh. Myrrh, one of the three gifts brought by the Wise Men, is a gum resin ...
Why did the Magi offer the baby Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh? An oft-mentioned spiritual reading holds that the gifts of the Magi were symbols of who the baby Jesus was: Gold was the sign that ...
Appearing only once in the story of Jesus' birth, the wise men from the East made a lasting impression in the Christian imagination.
Thousands of dollars worth of religious artwork, called icons, line the walls of St. John the Baptist Antiochian Orthodox Church in Post Falls. But it was a $20 mass-produced picture of the Virgin ...
Usually Christmas is the only time of year your hear about two very ancient herbs -- frankincense and myrrh. Both frankincense and myrrh are derived from the gummy sap that oozes out of the Boswellia ...
If their trek to visit the baby Jesus had happened this year, the biblical Magi might have been in for a surprise. The market for the gifts offered by the three kings — gold, frankincense and myrrh — ...
The Magi, the three wise men, famously offered the baby Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. We can still understand why they brought gold, but what Mary and Joseph were meant to do with the ...