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Knights Templar hid the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican

source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6040521.ece

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"Medieval knights hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican said yesterday in an announcement that appeared to solve the mystery of the relic’s missing years.

The Knights Templar, an order which was suppressed and disbanded for alleged heresy, took care of the linen cloth, which bears the image of a man with a beard, long hair and the wounds of crucifixion, according to Vatican researchers.

The Shroud, which is kept in the royal chapel of Turin Cathedral, has long been revered as the shroud in which Jesus was buried, although the image only appeared clearly in 1898 when a photographer developed a negative.

Barbara Frale, a researcher in the Vatican Secret Archives, said the Shroud had disappeared in the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, and did not surface again until the middle of the fourteenth century. Writing in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Dr Frale said its fate in those years had always puzzled historians."
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10 comments // Knights Templar hid the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican

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  • abipolarmind
  • DeliaTheArtist
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • So not true, O2. The shroud bears all the marks who suffered the kind of death Jesus suffered- not just the crown of thorns imprint, also the spear in the side, and of course, the nail prints. It has been scientifically analyzed, and naturally one who rejects christianity is going to reject the shroud as well.

    • 3 years ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
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    • unclecharlie:

      Yeah - really it is the "Christianity" part that provides proof for you.
      I say, find your faith elsewhere - because - I happen to be pretty darn good at judging old things for a profession. When I first saw that Time cover, I thought it was an artist's caricature of the Shroud. Then someone told me "No, that's an actual picture."
      I can't go on with a long litany of what it takes to judge antiques, but I can tell (without charge) that this thing is not 2000 years old. It's a hand-painted item. Herringbone weave linen - right off a church vestments table.
      Don't look to things and proofs. They'll fool ya every time.

    • 3 years ago
  • GoodGodGuy
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  • handibaby_tgdallas
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      handibaby_tgdallas  

    • Maybe they could be much more intent on living up to what the Prophet condoned and advised, and less interested in some piece of cloth he possibly wore and about which there is NO proof whatsoever.

    • 3 years ago
  • wirehedd
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      wirehedd  

    • Let's all get on the Jesus bandwagon with making the shroud of turin cool because it was secretly worshipped by the templars? C'mon, grave robbing for religious fame and fortune only works for Indiana Jones and Lara Croft.

    • 3 years ago
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