Epiphany

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044425
- info:lc/authorities/sh85044425
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85044425#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Three Kings' Day
- Twelfth day
- Twelfth night
Broader Terms
- Fasts and feasts
- Jesus Christ--Nativity
Narrower Terms
- Befana (Legendary character)
- Magi
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb119816263
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/4196530-9
Sources
- found: Carlson, L. Hurray for Three Kings Day!, c1999: author's note (When ... librarian Pura Belpre started programs for Spanish-speaking children in New York in the 1940s and 1950s, she decided to emphasize Three Kings' Day, because she knew that all Latin Americans celebrated and respected this most special day of the year ... Today, Three King's Day is just as popular among people of Latino heritage)
- found: Mexonline.com, March 7, 2000 (Jan. 6, Dia de los Santos Reyes is the day when Mexicans exchange Christmas presents in accordance with the arrival of the three gift-bearing wisemen to Jesus Christ)
- found: Family.go.com, March 7, 2000 (Three Kings' Day, Jan. 6, Commemorates the visit to the Baby Jesus of the Three Kings bearing gifts.)
LC Classification
- BV50.E7
Change Notes
- 2000-04-24: new
- 2000-05-08: revised

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