Geometry and Moravian tradition emanate from each beautiful Moravian Star.
By Pastor Roy Ledbetter
In 1599, Philip Nicolai, a Lutheran pastor on the Elbe River in Hamburg, wrote the words of one of Germany’s best known Advent hymns, this article’s title: “How bright appears the Morning Star, with mercy beaming from afar.” Each year across Germany, the words of the hymn come to life on the First Sunday in Advent as the many-pointed Advent Star from Herrnhut, a small city between Löbau and Zittau in the mountains of Upper Lusatia in Saxony near the Czech border, delights the eyes of church goers across the land from the dome of the beautifully reconstructed Frauenkirche in Dresden to the internationally well-known Thomaskirche of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig. The Advent Star shines also from the Himalayan marches of Ladakh to the sunbaked shores of the Cape of Good Hope, from the frozen coast of Labrador to the steamy riverbanks of Surinam.
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