History of the Shroud of Turin

	History of the Shroud
	After Jesus was crucified, he was wrapped in a burial cloth, according to Jewish tradition, before he was placed in a tomb. According to the Gospel of Mark when Mary Magdelaine and the women came to the tomb and looked in, and found it empty they were "frightened out of their wits.." It was not empty since it still contained his burial cloth, but there was no mention of an image miraculously left on the cloth. It was not until decades later that Christian texts mentions an image. The text made reference to a cloth kept in Odessa in Eastern Turkey. Then the elusive trail of the shroud ran cold for more than 1000 years. In 1355 the shroud re-appeared as a cloth called the burial sheet of Christ in the French Village of Leary, 120 miles SE of Paris Privately owned by the Deshaunes Family, associated with the Knights of Templar, a secret military order known for collecting, protecting and trading of relics. Although two local bishops said it was a painting and the shroud was a fraud, Pope Clement VII ruled the shroud was authentic and it can remain on display. In 1453 the DeShaunes family fell on financial hard times and sold the shroud to the Savoy family. In 1494 the shroud was exhibited in Verchelli Italy and proponents of the Leonardo Theory claim a new shroud went on display. In 1532 there was a fire that nearly distroyed the shroud.
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