John of Hildesheim: The Legend of the Three Holy Kings. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Khil'deskhaymskiy Ioann. Legenda o trekh svyatykh tsaryakh. M. Enigma, Alethea 1998. Created in the fourteenth century by the monk John Hildesheim, this Latin book tells the apocryphal story of the three saints mentioned in the Bible, the three magicians who brought gifts to the infant Jesus. According to legend, the three saints - Yaspar, Melchior, and Valtesar - personify the ancient wisdom preserved in mankind since Ademian times, and the three races of the three parts of the world, and were therefore highly revered in the era of the Crusades and the Great Geographic Discovery. SKUalbaa991acf11a2bcb2.