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Guy Erlich, an Israeli entrepreneur, checks a frankincense tree at a plantation in Kibbutz Almog in the West Bank Nov. 30, 2017. Conflict, climate change and poverty are driving the demise of the tree that produces frankincense resin. (CNS photo/Ronen Zvulun, Reuters) Dec. 10, 2020 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY The Gospel of Matthew never details how many Magi came from the East, but it makes it clear they traveled to pay homage to the newborn king of the Jews and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Beyond their great monetary value, scholars say, the gifts had deep symbolic significance: gold for the Christ child s nobility as king of the Jews; frankincense, which was burned in religious ceremonies, for his divinity; and myrrh, which was used on cuts or wounds and in the anointing of corpses, to prefigure his role as healer and foretell of his death.