Posted on 04/05/2009 12:20:47 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Medieval knights hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican said today in an announcement that appeared to solve the mystery of the relics 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.
However her study of the trial of the Knights Templar had brought to light a document in which Arnaut Sabbatier, a young Frenchman who entered the order in 1287, testified that as part of his initiation he was taken to a secret place to which only the brothers of the Temple had access. There he was shown a long linen cloth on which was impressed the figure of a man and instructed to venerate the image by kissing its feet three times.
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Like everything else worth saving in this world, it’ll wind up in the filthy hands of the islamists, eventually.
Except when the Carbon Dating that was done in 1988 has been conclusive provedthrough both chemical, statistical, and physical analysis published in peer-reviewed journals and independently confirmedto have been done on samples taken from a PATCHED area of the Shroud where the material is MIXTURE of original Linen and 16th Century Cotton added to the original material to repair damage.
The percentage of polluting Cotton varied between 40% and 60% of the tested sample, accounting for the previously inexplicable statistical variation in the 1988 test results that far exceededa spread of over 155 yearsthe expectations of the degree of confidence had the sub-samples all clipped from the same master sample been homogenous. Once it was found they were NOT homogenous, and not exemplar of the main body of the Shroud, the Carbon Dating done in 1988 was falsified.
It didn’t exist until 33 AD and was in Constitnople until 1204.
Wonder if the church knows.
Unresponsive to my question. Some detail about how it got to Constantnople in 33 and how you know it was there for nearly 1200 years.
Maybe he takes after his Father’s side of the family....:)
Well, I learn a new word every day. Thanks.
Phylactery: "Judaism. Either of two small leather boxes, each containing strips of parchment inscribed with quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures, one of which is strapped to the forehead and the other to the left arm; traditionally worn by Jewish men during morning worship, except on the Sabbath and holidays."
Wikipedia on Teffilin / phylacteries
Wikipedia quotes Old Testament verses and says ancient phylacteries were found at Qumran, so I'll take that as being plenty ancient enough.
Still, you'd suppose the New Testament would mention such a matter, especially as it carefully points out the dramatic crown of thorns, blood from which is said to appear on the Shroud of Turin.
This is why everyone wanted to celebrate the arrival of the new millenium on Jan 1, 2000 and they were off by a year.
BTAIM, one of the curiosities of the Shroud analysis was the discovery of particles of seeds in the weave of the cloth.
Read Ian Wilson’s book and digest it.
Could you please give a short summary of the answer to my brief specific question. I assume you read the book and know the facts of the situation.
My ex mother in law had it.
Good bye folks. Have a good one.
It is well established that a cloth with a purported image of Jesus existed in Edessa (now Urfa, Turkey) prior to 5th century CE. This was documented by Eusebius of Caesarea in the early 4th century. According to Eusebius (and this part of the record should be treated as legend for it has many such qualities) the cloth was brought to Edessa by the apostle Thomas or the disciple Thadeus (of the biblical 70).
What is reliable history is that in 544, a cloth with an image thought to be of Jesus was found concealed above a gate in the city walls of Edessa. That cloth was transferred to Constantinople on August 14, 944. At that time, it was described by Gregory Referendarius as a full-length burial cloth with an image of Jesus (purportedly) and bloodstains in the vicinity of a side wound.
Following the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, that cloth became the property of Othon de la Roche, the French Lord of Athens and Thebes (Athens was in French hands). He sent it to his castle home in the town of Besançon, France, likely in 1207. At Eastertide, it was removed from castle and displayed in the Besançon Cathedral. We dont know when that practice started but it ended when the cathedral was destroyed by fire in March of 1349.
Any records that might have existed may have been burned in that fire as all church records were destroyed. In that same year, Geoffroy de Charny, a French knight married Jeanne de Vergy, a grand-niece of Othon de la Roche, and delivered the shroud (or a shroud) to the canons of Lirey, thereby creating the earliest extant record in Western Europe.
Thank you. One has to suffer a lot of idiots to get to one scholar.
More support for the Shroud = the Mandylion. It will take more positive evidence overturning the carbon dating, beyond the plausible theories proposed to explain that to quiet many of the skeptics.. However, it will never be 100% proven by the dictates of science; God wants this belief to be by faith and that requires it to be beyond scientific proof.
Tonight on Discover channel is a documentary on that topic.. 6 in my time zone.
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