@colognetours: Shrine of the Three Kings or Three Wise Men at Cologne Cathedral This is a reliquary traditionally believed to contain the bones of the Biblical Magi: Melchior, Caspar, and Balthasar. This shrine is a large gilded and decorated triple sarcophagus situated above and behind the high altar of Cologne Cathedral in western Germany. Built approximately from 1180 to 1225, it is considered the high point of Mosan art by various historians and scholars, and ranks amongst the largest reliquary in the Western world. The "relics of the Magi" were originally brought to Constantinople by Empress Helena, Constantine the Great's mother, then brought to Milan in an oxcart by Eustorgius I, the city's bishop, to whom they were entrusted by Constantine in 314. Eight centuries later in 1164, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa took the relics of the Magi from the church of Saint Eustorgio in Milan and gave them to the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainald of Dassel. The relics have since attracted a constant stream of pilgrims to Cologne. #colognegermany #cathedral #colognecathedral #kölnerdom #köln #threewisemen #threekings #relic #shrine #mosanart #History #biblical #pilgrim #pilgrimage

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