On July 4, 1837, in a speech delivered in the town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, and the sixth U.S. President, proclaimed,
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth?
Witnessing the events of the Revolution as a boy, and no doubt hearing from his father of the raucous debates that gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and then going on to serve his country in many various capacities, John Quincy Adams saw that Christmas and Independence Day were fundamentally linked.
Christmas in July. Makes sense. Unexpected. The Founding Fathers (the wise men) were certainly tapped in to the upper worlds, so somebody really ought to run the math on that.
The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Twelvetide, is a festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity of Jesus. In most Western ecclesiastical traditions, "Christmas Day" is considered the "First Day of Christmas" and the Twelve Days are 25 December – 5 January, inclusive.
Definition of epiphany
1 capitalized : January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ
2 : an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being
3a(1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking
(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
b : a revealing scene or moment
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John Quincy Adams saw that Christmas and Independence Day were fundamentally linked.
Thus,
25 December - 5 January converts to 4 July - 15 July, and
6 January Epiphany converts to 16 July
I suppose it doesn't get any brighter than that epiphany-wise, because July 16th was the birthday of the Atomic Age, the day of the first atomic bomb test in 1945 when the Trinity was nuked. A baptism by fire so to speak.
Also on that day in 1969, Apollo 11 launched to the Moon. So there's the dove (Columbia = "dove"). The 50th anniversary is almost upon us. People are counting the days.
These Adams men, where do you find them?