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The 23 July is the TRANSLATION of the three Magi in Cologne, as Phyllis
Jestice correctly puts it: "Frederick Barbarossa had them enshrined in
Cologne Cathedral, where they remain today." (Naturally otherwise appearing
with the Epiphany on 6 Jan.)
In the archdiocese of Cologne was a mass celebrated on the 23 July:
"Missa de tribus regibus" [Victor Leroquais: Sacramentaires et Missels
manuscrits, 1924, III, p.55-58]. This would also include the Northern
Netherlands (Utrecht).
From a martyrology: (Migne PL 124 col.291B):
EDITIO LUBECO-COL.: "Apud Coloniam Aggrippinam, translatio corporum trium
Magorum, qui in Evangelio leguntur, nato in Bethleem Salvatori obtulisse
munera, aurum, thus et myrrham. Quorum pignora veneranda praesul
Coloniensium Reynoldus ab imperatore Frederico postulata, de Mediolano ad
Colomam anno Domini MCLXIV cum gaudio et exsultatione omnium transtulit, et
in ecclesiam suam cathedralem honorifice collocavit: in qua, operante
gratia divina, crebra miracula eorum meritis coruscant. Item Colonia
Agrippina, translatio sancti Felicis et Naboris militum et martyrum, qui
etiam per praedictum Coloniensium archiepiscopum Reynoldum eodem tempore de
civitate Mediolanensi facta est."
Another version: (Migne PL 124 col.292A):
GREVEN.: "Apud Coloniam Agrippinam, translatio trium regum Magorum, cum
duobus aliis. Nota, corpora sanctorum Magorum, ut dicit Vincentius lib.
XXX, olim ab imperatore Constantinopolim translata et inde Mediolanum
miraculose transvecta, cum imperator Fredericus I Mediolanum destrueret, a
Reinaldo Coloniensi archiepiscopo, qui tum auxilio imperatori venerat,
Coloniam translata sunt anno Domini MCLXIV una cum sanctis Felice et
Nabore, atque in ecclesia cathedrali, magna omnium exsultatione reposita;
ubi etiam multis coruscant miraculis."
Hope this is the kind of source Christopher was asking for?
Best wishes
Erik Drigsdahl
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