Knights Templar hid the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican

Times Online ^ | April 6 2009 | Richard Owen

[malkee]

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.

[malkee]

ping for GGG list

[JoeProBono]

[Swordmaker]

Thanks for the posting, Malkee, but this is a duplicate of an earlier post of the same article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222860/posts

[MaxMax]

The Vatican has become a Yo-Yo nation in it's own little world lately.

[GOP Poet]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

They kept it with this.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Vaduz]

The Knights Templar so little history where the went and what name the used after friday the 13th.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Repost complies with four hour guideline.

[Swordmaker]

Repost complies with four hour guideline.

Fine with me, A.A., but I was just redirecting comments to where most people were already discussing the subject. Thanks for the info on the four hour guideline. I was not familiar with it. I try not to ping the Shroud of Turin members to duplicate postings.

[malkee]

I searched the term ‘shroud’ before posting as a keyword. It wasn’t there (only shroudofturin) so I put it there.

[Dajjal]

bumpus ad summum