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POPE’S YULE
INSTRUCTIONS Pope Gregory I In his instructions to missionaries on Christmas festivities sent out from Rome in the year 601: “The people . . . should celebrate a religious feast and worship God by their feasting, so that still keeping outward pleasures, they may more readily receive spiritual joys.”
MAGIC OF MAGI
Believed to have occult powers, the Wise Men were called Magi, the root of our words magic and magician.
Magi were held to be magicians or soothsayers. They were also ancient priests who travelled far away to many lands in order to establish a following.
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