Reges ARABUM et SABA
dona adducent" (lxxii. 10). This made the Three into Kings, and fixed
them in Tarsia, Arabia, and Sava. "Mundatio Camelorum operiet te,
dromedarii Madian et EPHA: omnes de SABA venient aurum et thus
deferentes et laudem Domino annunciantes" (Is. lx. 6). Here were Ava and
Sava coupled, as well as the gold and frankincense.
One form of the old Church Legend was that the Three were buried at
Sessania Adrumetorum (Hadhramaut) in Arabia, whence the Empress Helena
had the bodies conveyed to Constantinople, [and later to Milan in the time
of the Emperor Manuel Comnenus. After the fall of Milan (1162), Frederic
Barbarossa gave them to Archbishop Rainald of Dassel (1159-1167), who
carried them to Cologne (23rd July, 1164). - H. C.]
The names given by Polo, Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, have been
accepted from an old date by the Roman Church; but an abundant variety of
other names has been assigned to them. Hyde quotes a Syriac writer who
calls them Aruphon, Hurmon, and Tachshesh, but says that some call them
Gudphorbus, Artachshasht, and Labudo; whilst in Persian they were termed
Amad, Zad-Amad, Drust-Amad, i.e. Venit, Cito Venit, Sincerus Venit. Some
called them in Greek, Apellius, Amerus, and Damascus, and in Hebrew,
Magaloth, Galgalath, and Saracia, but otherwise Ator, Sator, and
Petatoros! The Armenian Church used the same names as the Roman, but in
Chaldee they were Kaghba, Badadilma, Badada Kharida.
