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Three Kings Day keeps
Mexican traditions alive
By JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers. net
Gabriela Gonzalez-Lamberson re
members celebrating Three Kings Days
when she was growing up in Los An-
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geles. Three Kings Day brought a little
something extra each Christmas season.
The day, celebrated in Mexico and
throughout Latin America and South
America, marks the point in the Biblical
story of the birth of Jesus when the three
wise men, or kings, arrived with gifts to
honor the newborn.
“It is a very important tradition with
in the Mexican culture,” said Gonza
lez-Lamberson, who is of Cuban heri
tage but grew up in a community with
Hispanic families from many countries,
and works as executive director of the
Brookhaven-based Instituto de Mexi
co, Inc.
In some homes that decorate for the
holidays with nativity scenes — the table-
top displays that usually include figures
of Mary, Joseph, shepherds and angels —
the figures of the kings were not added
until Three Kings Day, Gonzalez-Lam
berson said. At times between Christ
mas and Three Kings Day, the figures
of the kings might be placed in rooms
other than the one containing the nativ
ity scene so children could imagine the
Kings are on their journey, she said. In
some families, children received presents
on Three Kings Day.
For the past 11 years, the nonprof
it group Gonzalez-Lamberson directs
has put together a public celebration of
Three Kings Day. Organized to dissem
inate the art and culture of Mexico, the
institute works to “keep traditions alive
within the Mexican population and
also create a friendship bridge between
the Mexican and non-Mexican popula
tions,” she said.
Three Kings Day is one of four com
munity celebrations the organization
sponsors. The others, she said, are Chil
drens Day in April, Mexican Indepen-
14 | DEC. 27,2013 — JAN. 9, 2014 | www.ReporterNewspapers.net
