Epiphany (holiday) the calendar used, calling the feast that of the Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord. Origen's list of festivals (in "Contra Celsum", VIII, xxii) omits any reference to Epiphany. The first reference to an ecclesiastical feast of the Epiphany, in Ammianus Marcellinus (XXI:ii), is in 361. In parts of the Eastern Church, January 6 continued for some time as a composite feast that included the Nativity of Jesus: though Constantinople adopted December 25 to commemorate Jesus' birth in the fourth century, in other parts the Nativity of Jesus continued to be celebrated on January 6, a date later devoted exclusively
Epiphany (literature) the Greek word 'epiphany' that means the manifestation of a deity or a sudden realisation. The term epiphany as a literary device has become popular among English speakers. Epiphany as a word is derived from the ancient Greek word "epiphaneia" "manifestation, striking appearance, festival held in commemoration of the appearance of a god at some particular place." It also has religious connotations in the early fourteenth century meaning "festival of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles" and in the New Testament meaning an "advent manifestation of Christ." Christians denoted from epiphany the meaning of a "visible manifestation of a