Epiphany
What it commemorates
The Epiphany celebrates the manifestation of Christ, above all the visit of the Magi; the Baptism of the Lord and the miracle at Cana belong to its early history.
Place in the liturgical year
It is kept on 6 January and gives its name to the Sundays after Epiphany.
In the 1962 Latin Mass Calendar
In the 1962 calendar it is kept as a day of the first class: In Epiphania Domini.
Modern Roman Calendar
The Modern Roman Calendar ranks it as a celebration with precedence over solemnities; its ranks differ from the four classes of 1962.