Bethlehem – Milan – Cologne: How the Three kings came to Germany

The Magi are, of course, not since the 6. January after the birth of Christ venerated. Their alleged Remains came only in the year 1164 to great notoriety, the year in which they entered the Cologne Cathedral, where they are now venerated as relics in the Golden three-king Shrine of the medieval Master goldsmith Nicholas of Verdun.

Stefan Trinks

editor in the features section.

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Uwe Ebbinghaus

editor in the features section.

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Before you came to Köln, were the right wild garbled bone in Milan, where, however, hardly any notice was taken. In a criminal action, the Archbishop of Cologne, on the field and Barbarossa, and Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Rainald of Dassel, the light upper Italian city and the relics to Cologne bring. Today Milan From Dassel rumbles, while Cologne, worshipped in the gigantic crowds of pilgrims to the three-king Shrine flocked to him unchanged. By him of the construction of the huge-sized Cathedral was possible in the first place.

in Particular, the Staufer Emperor, whose Chancellor, Of Dassel, was, sunbathing in the sparkling Shine of the gold Shrine of three Holy kings, and showed themselves to be so blatantly all over the world and, of course, especially the European king competitors as their direct successor, in keeping with the modified dependency set: “Wes’ bones I’,’ I'”.

No Pope in the crib

The Shrine in the dome above the main altar on a raised Plinth in the high choir. The skulls of the kings were presented with a precious crown on the main – three gold heads, which a small part of the wealth of the Rhine city, and not the least of the three crowns thanks to the city’s coat of arms.