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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 cloth’s 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 Historical documents mention it several times during the next 250 years.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.
Shroud of Turin Story
© 2005 Daniel R. Porter, Bronxville, New York
