[alexander_busek]

[...] Historian claims that the Shroud was made for Easter celebrations in the 14th Century and that there is no evidence of the Shroud before 1355 AD. But there is, including the 11th Century Pray Codex showing the Shroud with the poker holes, which shoots down his entire thesis.

Correction: "...showing a shroud.

Regards,

[Swordmaker]

Correction: "...showing a shroud.

Since the Shroud of Turin has those exact poker holes burnt in it in the same L pattern, and the herring bone weave pattern, unlike any other, It most likely is the Shroud of Turin being shown.

There is also a medallion struck in the 12 Century showing the double sided Shroud. Then there is the description of the Shroud from August 14, 944 AD in the Sermon of Gregorius Refendarius in which he relates the double image of Jesus on the Cloth. . . on the arrival of the Image of Edessa in Constantinople at the Hagia Sophia. There are many representations of Jesus in which there are points of comparison that match the Shroud.

Then there is the 11th Century letter of Sir Robert di Clari describing how, on every Sunday, the miraculous image of Christ on his burial cloth was raised at the Hagia Sophia for the worshippers to see. The Burial Shroud of Jesus was listed in the inventory of relics in Constantinople before the Knights of the 4th Crusade sacked the city and stole everything not nailed down and even some of those things.