The Templars and the Shroud of Christ (27 page)
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Authors: Barbara Frale
[
83
] Janin,
Les Églises
, pp. 310-311;
Fedalto, La Chiesa latina in Oriente
, I, p. 299.
[
84
] Rodd,
The Princes of Achaia
, II, p. 119.
[
85
] Riant,
Exuviae
, p. 7.
[
86
] Curzon,
La Règle
, § 13.
[
87
] Ibid., § 475.
[
88
] Frale,
La quarta crociata e il ruolo dei Templari
, pp. 454-466.
[
89
] For instance Mt, 12, 28; Mc, 3, 29, etc. Dossat,
Les cathares d’après l’Inquisition
, pp. 81-82.
[
90
] Mt, 26, 27-28.
[
91
] Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Reg. Aven. 48, f. 441r; Schottmüller, II, p. 29.
[
92
] About the legend’s development, see Scavone,
British King Lucius
, pp. 101-142; Loomis,
The Grail
, pp. 165-248.
[
93
] Riant,
Exuviae
, for example X, 48, 61, 96, 107, 113, 124, 149, ecc.
[
94
] Paris, Archives Nationales, J 413 n. 25, unnumbered folios (f. 9); Finke, II, pp. 323-324.
[
95
] Raffard de Brienne,
Les duc d’Athènes et le Linceul
, pp. 171-176; Dubarle,
Le Linceul de Turín
, pp. 173-176; Zaccone,
Le manuscrit
826, pp. 214-216. Müller,
Festliche Begegnungen
, I, pp. 2-241.
[
96
] Nikolaos Mesarites,
Die Palast-revolution,
p. 30, cit. in Wilson,
Holy Faces
, pp. 154-155, note 30.
[
97
] Chioffi,
Mummificazione e imbalsamazione,
p. 63
Above: The human face of the shroud with traces of Scripture in Greek and Latin, identified by André Marion and Anne-Laure Courage.
Above: The Shroud of Turin: the pale, indistinct, yellowish image perceived by the naked eye, is changed by photography into a clear, hyper-realistic picture, full of striking detail.
Above: A Matteo Planiso miniature depicting the Creator as a man with two faces. Vatican Apostolic Library,
ms Vat. lat 3550, f. 5v.
Above: The Shroud of Turin.
Above: Innocent III wrote a hymn to celebrate the Veronica, a famous image of the Face of Jesus kept in Rome.
Above: Knights of the Temple on a war footing. Miniature from a manuscript from the 13th century with the
Cantigas
of King Alfonso the Wise.
Above: The so-called “belt of blood” on the Shroud.
Above: A shroud with the exact kind of holes the Shroud of Turin has is represented in a miniature of the striking Pray manuscript.
Above: From the earliest days, Christians used to keep portraits of Jesus. This icon was preserved by the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai. Even a layman can tell that they are drawn from realistic portraits.
Above: A jar-like object (the same type found at Qumran) was the first container of the shroud, according to a reconstruction made by Aldo Guerreschi and Michele Salcito.
Above: Miniature from a manuscript depicting the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII receiving the holy
mandylion
on his arrival from Edessa.
Above: Byzantine miniature of the 12th century manuscript Rossiano Greco 251 of the Vatican Library.