Masalia

Masalia ni mabaki ya mwili au ya vitu vya mtu anayeheshimika hasa kwa msingi wa dini.

Masalia ni muhimu hasa katika baadhi ya madhehebu ya dini, kama vile ya Uhindu, Ubuddha na Ukristo.

Katika dini hiyo ya mwisho, heshima kwa masalia ilianza na maiti ya wafiadini, na umuhimu wake ulifikia kilele chake katika Karne za Kati.

Tanbihi

 Marejeo 
 Relics, by Joan Carroll Cruz, OCDS, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc, 1984. ISBN 0-87973-701-8
 Reliques et sainteté dans l'espace médiéval
 Brown, Peter; Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity; University of Chicago Press; 1982
 Vauchez, Andre; Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages; Cambridge University Press; 1997
 Mayr, Markus; Geld, Macht und Reliquien; Studienverlag, Innsbruck, 2000
 Mayr, Markus (Hg); Von goldenen Gebeinen; Studienverlag, Innsbruck, 2001

Masalia katika fasihi
 The Relic by Eça de Queiroz, Dedalus Ltd, UK 1994. ISBN 0-946626-94-4
 The Translation of Father Torturo by Brendan Connell, Prime Books, 2005. ISBN 0-8095-0043-4

Viungo vya nje

 The First-class Relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe 
 Relics in the Church of St Charles Borromeo, Wrocław, Poland 
 World tour of the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux
 Keeping Relics in Perspective 
 A Place for Relics 
 Relics and Reliquaries Collection, University of Dayton Special Collections
 Introduction by Earnest Brehaut (from his 1916 translation), pp. ix-xxv  to: Medieval Sourcebook, Gregory of Tours (539-594), History of the Franks, Books I–X  (on the 6th century meaning of sanctus and virtus)
 Head, Thomas. "The Cult of the Saints and Their Relics", The On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies (the ORB), College of Staten Island, City University of New York 
 Smith, Judith M. H., "Portable Christianity:Relics in the Medieval West (c.700–1200)", Raleigh Lecture on History 2010 
 Butterfield, Andrew. "What Remains", New Republic, July 28, 2011
 Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, -joint exhibition of the British Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

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