Today is a special night for everyone, but especially for the little ones. Today they look forward to Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar coming home loaded with gifts and leaving the packages that hide their requested wishes next to their shoes. Of course, not before leaving sweets and drinks under the tree for them and their camels.

Many previous weeks choosing what to order and writing the letter with care so that the night of January 5th to 6th does its magic and… wow! They usually get up early that morning. The emotion does not allow them to sleep until later and, then, children and adults prepare to open their gifts.

But where does that tradition come from?

Well, it is a tradition that does not extend to too many countries as it does with Santa Claus. It comes from the Bible and the Gospel of Saint Matthew alludes to them.

In said gospel it is said that they were guided by a star from the East, to adore the baby Jesus. And it also tells that Herod, upon finding out, made them promise that once they found the child they would notify him so that he could also do the same.

The kings found the boy in a stable in Bethlehem, together with his parents, gave him gold, frankincense and myrrh and, in that place, an angel warned them that the only purpose Herod really had was to end the life of the boy.

We wanted to find out a little more about this story, since in the Bible there is no more mention of Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar and, thanks to some history magazines, we have been able to find out that it is in the Apocryphal Gospels where they are most named. . From them it can be deduced that they were astrologers and that their origin as we conceive it today comes from the Middle Ages.

What is currently that special day in which the elderly become children again and the children raise their emotions to the maximum exponent.

Happy king’s day! And enjoy the roscón