“The Magi came from the East.  How did they know about Christ?  Probably from the prophecy of Daniel concerning the seventy weeks of the years; they counted the revolution of the stars.  In any case, they knew, and they brought gold because he was a king, incense because he was a priest, but also myrrh.  That’s the way he was buried, with a hundred pounds of spices and myrrh.  What would our mothers have thought if the neighbors brought in embalming fluid when we were born?”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Through the Year with Fulton Sheen)