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Pierce dArcis
Pierce dArcis on the Shroud of then Lirey
...falsely and deceitfully, being consumed with the passion of avarice and not from any motive of devotion but only of gain, procured for their church a certain cloth cunningly painted, upon which by clever sleight of hand was depicted the twofold image of one man, that is to say the back and front, they falsely declaring and pretending that this was the actual Shroud in which our Savior Jesus Christ was enfolded in the tomb.It should be noted that many contemporaneous documents of the period challenge the veracity of the memo by d`Arcis. Dan Scavone notes: In 1389, supposed year of his memo, his Troyes cathedral's roof caved and it had to be closed; expenses demanded a draw to bring in the pilgrims and their donations people accused him of wanting it for himself, as his own memo states
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 Medalion from the first known European Shroud Exhibit in 1356
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