Constantinople, city of: Shroud of Turin Terms

Role of Constantinople in Shroud's History

Gregory Referendarius was the archdeacon of Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople in 944 CE, when the Cloth of Edessa was transferred from Edessa to Constantinople, the Byzantine capital. On the day after the cloths arrival, Gregory Referendarius preached a sermon that offers important evidence that the cloth was a burial cloth, that it contained a full length image of a man believed to be Jesus, and that it contained bloodstains. One of the bloodstains was clearly from a side wound.

The Gregory Referendarius sermon, recently rediscovered in the Vatican Archives, was translated from the ancient Greek by Mark Guscin.

944 began an important era for the burial cloth that many today believe is the Shroud of Turin. Historical documents mention it several times during the next 250 years.

It disappeared from Constantinople during the sacking of the city by knights of the Fourth Crusades.

The sacking of Constantinople in 1204

	What is the Shroud of Turin? The Shroud Described.
	How the images might have formed. Images on the Shroud of Turin.
	Hints from Edessa, 544 AD. Early Shroud of Turin History.
	How a medieval artisan caused Carbon 14 Dating Errors.
	Startling, Mysterious, Unexplained. The 3D Encoding of the Shroud.
	The Variegated Cloth. Fooled by the Shroud's Background Noise.
	The Art Connection. Christ Pantocrator and the Shroud of Turin.
	Was the Shroud of Turin Described? Voices from the Past
	Medical Perspective: Forensic Pathology of the Images
	The Second Face: From the Back of the Cloth
	Some say . . . Painted, Leonardo da Vinci, Jacques deMolay, Coins, etc.