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Were the Magi from India?
« on: February 13, 2017, 08:08:48 PM »
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    " Among Westerners who concur that the Wise Men came from India is the great twentieth-century mystic and stigmatist Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, Germany, who experienced weekly visions of Jesus' passion and crucifixion, the " stations of the cross. "...... In 'Therese of Konnersreuth: A New Chronicle', by Friedrich Ritter von Lama (Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1935), the following incident is related:
    " The visit to Konnersreuth in September, 1932, of His Excellency Bishop Alexander der Chulaparambil of Kottayam, India, with the Reverend Father Theccanat, the rector of the Bishop's seminary, afforded interesting evidence of Therese's ability in the state of ecstasy and corporal blindness to recognize what must be unknown to her in a normal state. The companion of His Excellency wrote me as follows: 'Neither Therese nor the pastor knew of our coming.... Therese had just witnessed the Station in which Simon of Cyrene appears and now, in a period of rest, was talking of what she had seen and heard....and repeated in Syrian (that is, Aramaic) the words " Slanlak Malka de Judae! " (Hail, King of
    the Jєωs!) We were of course astounded at hearing these words. The Bishop, who belongs to the Syro-Malabarian Rite, repeated them, but Therese corrected his expression, saying: " Perhaps you speak the words as they are written, but I heard them this way, " and she repeated them. Thereupon we recognized the mistake we had made. We had used a short 'a' in the last syllable of the first word, whereas it ought to be a long 'a', as Therese used it....After a few minutes Father Naber motioned to His Excellency to come close to the bed. When the Bishop touched Therese's left hand, she held it fast. " This is a high pastor from the land whence the Kings came to worship the Christ Child, " [she said.]' "