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Inspired by the Gospel texts and in the wonderful Christmas Story "The Other Wise Man". written in 1896 by Henry Van Dyke, Presbyterian theologian and writer who was born in a Pennsylvania (USA) called Germantown, this book tells the story of Artaban the Mede, a wise man and magician who guided by a star, all that he had left to go in search of a child who would be born God and Man, Jesus of Nazareth, and whoever Artaban, could only found at the end of his days, when Jesus was to be crucified, having spent almost thirty years prisioner in the palace of Herod, to save the life of a child during the slaughter of the innocents. But in this story, our Fourth Wise Man finds Jesus, when still a child, and with it I just tried to present the moral of faith and courage, which Henry Van Dyke defined in a single sentence: "Certain kinds of failure, are worth much more than the triumph" So be it.
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