page_title: Marienschrein
section_title: Function
hierarchical_section_title: Marienschrein / Function
caption_attribution_description: English: The open Shrine of Mary (Marienschrein) in Aachen Cathedral during the Aachen Pilgrimage 2014. Deutsch: Der geöffnete Marienschrein im Aachener Dom während der Aachener Heiligtumsfahrt 2014. Français&#160;: Le sanctuaire ouvert de Marie dans la Cathédrale d&#39;Aix-la-Chapelle pendant le Pèlerinage d&#39;Aix-la-Chapelle 2014.
context_page_description: The Marienschrein in Aachen Cathedral is a reliquary, donated on the order of the chapter of Mary around 1220 and consecrated in 1239. Along with the Karlsschrein, the artwork, which is from the transitional period between romanesque and gothic, is among the most important goldsmith works of the thirteenth century.
context_section_description: The shrine serves as the container of the four great contact relics and objects of pilgrimage in Aachen Cathedral. The relics include: the swaddling clothes and loin cloth of Jesus, the dress of Mary and the decapitation cloth of John the Baptist, which have been shown to the congregation and to pilgrims participating in the Aachen pilgrimage every seven years since plague struck in 1349. Until the nineteenth century, it was also the container for the Noli me tangere casket, a silver-gilt casket with mysterious contents.
caption: The opened shrine during the Aachen pilgrimage (Heiligtumsfahrt)
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