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The Holy Shroud

Author: Gary Vikan.

The Holy Shroud

Author: Gary Vikan.

$28.95 $5.98
Item #: D30196
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2020
Publisher: Pegasus
ISBN: 9781643134321
In 2,000 years of church history, no relic has been more controversial than the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. During the Middle Ages, King John II gave the shroud to his friend Geoffroi de Charny to use as a devotional image at a church in the French hamlet of Lirey, but it was later misrepresented as a miracle. The question remains: ... More
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In 2,000 years of church history, no relic has been more controversial than the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. During the Middle Ages, King John II gave the shroud to his friend Geoffroi de Charny to use as a devotional image at a church in the French hamlet of Lirey, but it was later misrepresented as a miracle. The question remains: how did the image of a crucified man become part of the cloth? Combining copious research and decades of art world experience, Gary Vikan reveals how a remarkable hoax came into being.


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