The Epiphany of our Lord never fails to arouse fascination for the story of the Visit of the Magi. The number, the identification, the homelands, and the occupations of the men from the East are not cited in the biblical account. That has allowed for all kinds of speculation as to who and what the Magi may have been. Some of that has been scholarly, some playful, some artful, some of it educational, and some worshipful. Carlos Menotti relates how fortunate it was for him that he could fall back on the traditional lore of his native Italy when he was called upon to produce the first opera created for national television, Amahl and the Night Visitors. He remembers the pressures he felt for making deadlines for the performance of the opera. He would have been in difficult straits were it not …