- COLOGNE, THE THREE KINGS OF
- the three Magi who paid homage to the infant Christ, and whose bones were consigned to the archbishop in 1164; they were called Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
COLOGNE, THE THREE KINGS OF
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