{"id":1052,"date":"2012-01-07T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2015-06-11T05:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T09:54:24","slug":"winter-festivals-part-ii-three-kings-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/winter-festivals-part-ii-three-kings-day","title":{"rendered":"Winter Festivals Part II: Three Kings Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"rosca de reyes by From Argentina With Love, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22995353@N08\/5331860340\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5163\/5331860340_9e65becb0e.jpg\" alt=\"Rosca de Reyes for Three Kings day\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosca de Reyes is a traditional sweet bread made for Three Kings Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our next stop in Explorica\u2019s three-part winter festival series is for Three Kings Day, which is also known as Epiphany. Three Kings Day is a Christian festival that is celebrated twelve days after the birth of Jesus when the three kings are said to have first set eyes on the newborn baby. But if you couldn\u2019t make the Three Kings Day celebrations scheduled for January 6<sup>th<\/sup> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/european-tours.aspx\">Western Europe<\/a><\/span> and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/north-american-tours.aspx\">United States<\/a><\/span>, then you\u2019ll have a second chance on January 19<sup>th<\/sup> if you head over to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"..\/..\/educational-tours\/russia.aspx\">Russia<\/a><\/span>. Confused? Well, this is because Christians in Western Europe and the USA adhere to the Gregorian calendar where the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 25<sup>th<\/sup>. Whereas Eastern Orthodox Christians, such as those in Russia, follow the Julian calendar where Jesus\u2019 birthday is January 7<sup>th<\/sup>. And it\u2019s not just the day of the Three Kings that is different around the world. Countries celebrate differently, too. In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/france.aspx\">France<\/a><\/span>, people bake little treats called King cake that will break your teeth if you&#8217;re not careful. (There\u2019s a porcelain king baked right inside!) And in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/puerto-rico.aspx\">Puerto Rico<\/a><\/span>, before children go to bed at night on January 5<sup>th<\/sup>, they leave a box of hay under their beds to feed the kings\u2019 camels that are said to pass by in the night. In return for this good gesture, children hope to find gifts from the kings when they wake in the morning. Lastly, in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/italy-and-greece.aspx\">Greece<\/a><\/span> people enact an ancient tradition called <em>The Blessing of the Waters <\/em>where a priest throws a cross as far as he can into a harbor ready for young men to brave the cold and swim out to retrieve it for good luck. The people do for fortune!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next stop in Explorica\u2019s three-part winter festival series is for Three Kings Day, which is also known as Epiphany. Three Kings Day is a Christian festival that is celebrated twelve days after the birth of Jesus when the three kings are said to have first set eyes on the newborn baby. But if you <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/winter-festivals-part-ii-three-kings-day\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[58,210,40,113,213,214,128,212],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-educational-travel","tag-festivals","tag-france","tag-greece","tag-puerto-rico","tag-russia","tag-student-travel","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}