Pope St. Leo I: The Epiphany

“THAT day, beloved children, on which Christ, the Savior of the world, for the first time appeared to the gentiles, is to be venerated with a most holy honor by us also. . . . For that day is not past in such a way that the power of the work which was then revealed should be past as well.”

~Pope St. Leo I (reigned A.D. 440-61): from Sixth Sermon on the Epiphany.

The Journey of the Magi, by James Tissot.

Oil on canvas, c. 1894; Minneapolis Institute of Arts.