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To: IrishBrigade

That’s why it works so well as a fund raiser.


5 posted on 04/28/2019 8:46:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Your flip response notwithstanding, careful review of all of the evidence, and application of Occam’s Razor, gives the skeptic a tough roe to hoe


8 posted on 04/28/2019 8:52:25 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: Sacajaweau; j.havenfarm
That’s why it works so well as a fund raiser.

It is well accepted that veneration of Holy Relics could enhance the income of churches and cathedrals, but when the Shroud first appeared in the possession of Geoffrey de Charny in the small hamlet of Lirey, France, Sir Geoffrey who had been the standard bearer for the King of France, and the author of the French Code of Chivalry, built a small church to house the Shroud, and would accept no donations from pilgrims to venerate it.

Instead, Geoffrey’s family funded everything itself until it nearly bankrupted itself supporting the church and its clergy to the point that his Granddaughter had to sell the Shroud to the Savoy family, the royal family of Italy to prevent that bankruptcy.

When the Shroud has been displayed, it has never been displayed with an admission charge. Donation boxes are available for those who wish to make a donation, but there is no mandatory cost.

I’ve been to some of these local Shroud information centers and there may be a small admission charge, but that’s to keep the doors open.

41 posted on 04/28/2019 12:36:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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