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Dec 2023
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Wise Men from the East

Spencer Klavan
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It's (still) Christmas!! On the feast of St. Stephen's Day (AKA Boxing Day), we gather around the cozy fire with our egg nogg and our gifts to talk about...martyrdom? Here's one extra Christmas special on the full twelve days of the holiday and the connections between Christmas morning, the first Christian martyr, and the final festival of Epiphany, when wise men came from the east to seal Jesus as the Messiah, not just for the Jews, but for the whole world.

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