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Today is the feast of the Epiphany.
"We three kings from Orient are; Bearing gifts we travel afar."
In his homily our priest inferred that the Magi visited the child Jesus two years after the birth of the child.
I don't know about that.
Surely, the Holy Family would not still be living in a stable two years after the birth of Christ, nor did the priest infer that they were.
After all, Joseph had a marketable skill - carpentry.
Does anyone out there have more insight into the timing of the coming of the Three Kings?
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but maybe the Internet Sacred Text Archive site has something on these varying stories. Or there will be someone else along that knows this stuff far better than I 