This lighted manger scene scene
is approximately 5.5” tall, 5” wide, and 5” deep. It is made out of resin and is handsomely painted. The scene portrays Mary with baby Jesus with Joseph in the manger being visited by the Three Wise Men. There are two red lights on the ground and a blue and green light in the sky highlighting the display. Mary is kneeling down beside Baby Jesus in the manger with Joseph looking down with a lantern in his right hand. Mary wears a dark red gown with an antiqued cerulean blue shawl on her shoulders. Her head is draped with a white mantle. Joseph wears a brown tunic with a maroon cloak draped over his shoulders. He holds a lantern in his right hand. The Wise Man, Melchoir, wears a dark cerulean robe and a shiny burgundy cloak. He wears a golden crown on his head and carries a chest full of gold. Balthazar is kneeling toward Jesus in an orange tunic with a dark green cape over his shoulders. He has an orange turban with a gold crown on top his head. Balthazar carries a gift of myrrh in a gleaming gold urn. Gaspar is adorned with a chocolate colored tunic and a green belt. He has a navy shawl hanging over his right shoulder. Gaspar wears a gold crown with chocolate colored detailing. For Jesus, he brings the gift of frankincense in a gold chalice.
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Frankincense:
The gift of the wise man Gaspar to the baby Jesus, a symbol of Christ’s divinity and worship. Also known as olibanum, it is a fragrant gum resin from African trees of genus boswellia long used as incense in religious services.
There are a number ideas about the symbolism of the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. One suggests the gold represented a gift fit for a king. Frankincense was given as a symbol of Jesus becoming the high priest. Myrrh was used in making medicines and would symbolize Jesus becoming a great physician and healer. Another opinion is that these gifts were a kind of symbolic foreshadowing of what the life of this baby would be. Gold, given in recognition of Jesus being a king. Frankincense and myrrh were used to prepare a corpse for burial. Thus these two gifts would foreshadow the dark end Jesus would meet on the cross.
Frankincense is a fragrant gum resin obtained from certain trees that grow in east Africa and southern Arabia. It gives forth a strong, pleasant odor when it is burned. The ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans used the gum for religious rites. The name comes from two French words, franc, meaning pure and ences, meaning incense. The scientific name for frankincense is olibanum. It comes to the market in the form of pale colored globules, called tears. Frankincense has been used for embalming, fumigating and as an ingredient of incense. The ancient Egyptians used it in medicines. The fragrant gum resin is used as a raw material for perfumes. Harvesters cut into the bark of the trees and collect the resin in the form of colorless to pale yellow drops called tears. Perfumers extract oil from the tears by dissolving them in alcohol, then passing steam through them. The oil gives perfumes a long-lasting, spicy fragrance.