Post by Roderick on Apr 7, 2009 15:48:45 GMT 12
Sanjeet1
7/04/2009 3:30:05 PM MEDIEVAL knights hid and secretly venerated the Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican revealed yesterday, in an announcement that appeared to solve the mystery of the relic's missing years.
'Missing' shroud was in knights' hands
The Knights Templar, a crusading order suppressed and disbanded for alleged heresy, took care of the linen cloth, which bears the image of a bearded man with long hair and the wounds of crucifixion, according to the Vatican researchers.
The material, kept in the royal chapel of Turin Cathedral, has long been revered as Christ's burial shroud, 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 disappeared in the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, and did not emerge again until the middle of the 14th century. Writing in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Dr Frale said the shroud's fate in those years always puzzled historians.
Sanjeet comments: an interesting topic and the truths surrounding the originality of the object, carbon dated to an uncertain year but without doubt this cloth does pose a mystery, to those who believe it is a sacred relic and to those that comment it is just a piece of cloth that by some unknown reason holds a depiction of a body said to be Jesus Report this post
Psalter
7/04/2009 3:31:15 PM I thought it was carbon tested and found to be a fake? Report this post
Sanjeet1
7/04/2009 3:31:19 PM Report this post
izzi
7/04/2009 3:41:00 PM Fake or real , it's a moot point. Who would want something that medieval knights had venerated on for 100 years, yeech Report this post
Lynz
7/04/2009 3:41:38 PM Yes, it has been tested and whatever, or whoever, it is not Christ. It is far to young. Report this post
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