They ministered unto Him out of their own possessions, even until His crucifixion and entombment; and afterwards, neither losing faith in Him after His death, nor fearing the wrath of the Jewish ...

The day commemorates when the women disciples of our Lord came to the tomb to anoint his body with myrrh-oils but found the tomb empty. As the woman wondered what this meant, angels appeared ...

"We burn frankincense to chase away flies and mosquitoes ... They get slightly more for myrrh which currently sells for $10/kg. Like frankincense, it is a resin tapped from small, thorny trees.

Recently, KAIMRC’s Sultan Alqahtani, in collaboration with Beni-Suef University in Egypt, found that this resin, known as myrrh, counteracts the damaging effects of ammonia excess, a common ...

In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the safe use of myrrh as a food additive, which is included in its ...

The story goes that three wise men took gold, frankincense and myrrh as offerings to the baby Jesus. But today the gifts are being thought of as precious by scientists for their more unexpected ...