Posted on 04/06/2009 7:05:43 AM PDT by Pistolshot
Medieval knights hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican said Sunday 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
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We need a new society of badasses like these guys again to go and start carving some punks of certain...shall we say, antagonistic faiths, and I ain’t talkin’ Jews, folks.
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Knights Templar Hid the Shroud of Turin
Those darn Knights!
“We need a new society of badasses like these guys again to go and start carving some punks of certain...shall we say, antagonistic faiths, and I ain’t talkin’ Jews, folks.”
We have the Knights of Columbus now...what more do we need?
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The Knights Templar are still here.
Should they go against the will of the people in their free vote for current leadership?
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