One evidence the Templars is associated with the TS is the Templecombe panel. It has been reported by Ian Wilson (The Turin Shroud„ Gollancz 1978), and by others like myself who have based their information on Wilson’s account, that a painting of the head of Christ was discovered by accident in an outbuilding in Templecombe …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 7:02 am It is a worry that this was not (apparently) published as a historicalpaper but is one of three books by the same author. I shouldlike to know more of the sources and eviudence for all this. Wiki says: In June 2009, Frale published, always for Il Mulino, …
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … onicle.jpg Byzantine Iconoclasm occurred during the periods 726-787 AD and 814-842 AD. During these times, many icons were destroyed in the Byzantine empire. The Byzantine Iconoclasm (Greek: Εικονομαχία, romanized: Eikonomachía, lit. ’image struggle’, ‘war on icons’) were two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when the use of religious images or icons …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 6:20 am With hindsight and the eye of Faith, this talk of a painted icon can be reinvented to be a garbled memory of the faint negative image of the Turin shroud. But even though it makes a convenient dot on the journey of the shroud from Jerusalem to …
As I mentioned, the Acts of Thaddeus uses the Greek word “tetradiplon” that was translated as “towel”. Towel is not the best way to translate this. Tetradiplon literally means “four double” or “four folding”. Why would it be translated towel and what is the significance of a cloth that is folded four times? It was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:100, … verse).jpg The Acts of Thaddeus recounts the legend of King Abgar V being healed by a cloth with the image of Jesus on it. The Acts of Thaddeus (Greek: Πραξεὶ̀ς τοῦ Θαδδαίου[1]) is a Greek document written between 544 and 944 CE which purports to describe correspondence between King Abgar V of Edessa …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abga … entury.jpg The image of Edessa (Mandylion) is tied to the legend of King Abgar V. According to Christian tradition, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus had been imprinted—the first icon (“image”). The image …
There are several ancient coins that match the TS. Justin Robinson notes theses similarities in his blog, Byzantine Coins, the Shroud of Turin and the Holy Grail. At some time during the short but distinguished reign of Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes (AD 969- 976), an artist working at the Constantinople Mint was entrusted with …
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7571 … e-1025-ce/ The city of Edessa has a long history as an important city. Edessa (/ɪˈdɛsə/; Ancient Greek: Ἔδεσσα, romanized: Édessa) was an ancient city (polis) in Upper Mesopotamia, founded during the Hellenistic period by King Seleucus I Nicator (r. 305–281 BC), founder of the Seleucid Empire. It later became capital of the Kingdom of …
The “Scenes from the Passion of Christ” is an ivory panel roughly 1 foot by 5 inches dated to the early 12th century that originated most likely in Constantinople. The plaque is the biggest ivory panel of the Middle Byzantine period recorded, and is comparable in size to conuslar diptychs. Relief in ivory with traces …