Anonymous ID: b232e3 May 20, 2020, 1:43 p.m. No.9255510   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Balthazar was according to tradition one of the biblical Magi along with Caspar and Melchior who visited the infant Jesus after he was born. Balthazar is traditionally referred to as the King of Arabia and gave the gift of myrrh to Jesus. In the Roman Catholic Church, he is regarded as a saint (as are the other two Magi).

 

Balthazar gave the gift of myrrh, which symbolised the future death of a king, as myrrh was an expensive item at the time.

 

Can someone explain this to me?

Why would the church venerate him a saint for giving a gift symbolizing the death of a king?

 

And why would H wood video games/movies portray him as a demon?