Just before Christmas one year, I took our three-year-old nursery school class on a tour of the church, to tell them the story of Christmas. The Christmas window with the Three Kings, Mary, and Jesus is a nursery school favorite. I asked the class who the baby was. "Jesus," one little girl replied. "Who is the lady carrying him in her arms?" "That’s his Mother." "What’s her name?" No one knew. Finally another little girl said, "Mary." Then I asked them, "And who are these three men?" A long silence followed. Finally a bright, black-haired boy said, "Those are his grandparents!"

Who are these kings?

If you travel to the Cathedral of Cologne, on the Rhine River in Germany, you will find, in an enameled shrine, the purported remains of these kings with a description of their deaths. It read…