The book intertwines religious ideas and practices from Serbia and Bulgaria, with an emphasis on the cult of saints and the new canonizations of the 20th and 21st centuries. Local and state religious policies are placed in the context of Balkan history to explain religious phenomena. The ethnographic method of work enriches the subject with details that reveal folk culture and logic, as well as the transformation that occurred during communism. Geography in the subject shows the common and the different, using the historical context without which understanding is impossible. Faith unites sacred topos and connects people. Travelling relics also serve such a function. Present is not only the movement of pilgrims but also the mobility of relics. The difference in the political regimes prior to 1990 in the two countries is one of the explanations for the different dynamics of these processes.