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La [[Mănăstirea Sfântul Pavel (Muntele Athos)]] se găsesc părticele din darurile făcute de Magi la nașterea Mântuitorului (monedele de aur, cu boabe de smirnă și tămâie cusute pe ele) într-o raclă mică din aur din secolul al XV-lea. Au fost donate mănăstirii în secolul XV de Mara Branković, fiica regelui Serbiei Đurađ Branković, soție a sultanului otoman Murat al II-lea. Acestea reprezintă o parte din relicvele Palatului din Constantinopol, care s-ar fi aflat acolo încă din secolul al IV-lea. În secolul al XIII-lea, Marco Polo claimed that he was shown the three tombs of the Magi at povestește că a văzut la anul 1270 în cetatea Saba (Saveh south of Tehran in the 1270s- la sud de Teheran) cele trei morminte ale Magilor: ”In Persia is the city of Saba, from which the Three Magi set out and in this city they are buried, in three very large and beautiful monuments, side by side. And above them there is a square building, beautifully kept. The bodies are still entire, with hair and beard remaining.”
A Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral, according to tradition, contains the bones of the Three Wise Men. Reputedly they were first discovered by Saint Helena on her famous pilgrimage to Palestine and the Holy Lands. She took the remains to the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople; they were later moved to Milan (some sources say by the city's bishop, Eustorgius I[26]), before being sent to their current resting place by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I in AD 1164. The Milanese celebrate their part in the tradition by holding a medieval costume parade every 6 January.
A version of the detailed elaboration familiar to us is laid out by the 14th century cleric John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum ("History of the Three Kings"). In accounting for the presence in Cologne of their mummified relics, he begins with the journey of Helena, mother of Constantine I to Jerusalem, where she recovered the True Cross and other relics: Queen Helen… began to think greatly of the bodies of these three kings, and she arrayed herself, and accompanied by many attendants, went into the Land of Ind… after she had found the bodies of Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar, Queen Helen put them into one chest and ornamented it with great riches, and she brought them into Constantinople... and laid them in a church that is called Saint Sophia.
==Surse==
* en.OrthodoxWiki.org, art. „Magi”
* en.Wikipedia.org, art. „Biblical Magi”
* Xavier Léon-Dufour, ''Dictionnaire du Nouveau Testament'', Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1975
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