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1205

A letter from Constantinople to the Pope after the Fourth Crusade says that the invading Venetians had taken many relics, including "the linen in which our Lord Jesus Christ was wrapped after his death and before the resurrection." This is the last surviving mention of the Image of Edessa.

In 1205, Theodore Angelos, a nephew of one of three Byzantine Emperors who were deposed during the Fourth Crusade, wrote to Pope Innocent III protesting the attack on the capital. From the document, dated 1 August 1205: "The Venetians partitioned the treasures of gold, silver, and ivory while the French did the same with the relics of the saints and the most sacred of all, the linen in which our Lord Jesus Christ was wrapped after his death and before the resurrection. We know that the sacred objects are preserved by their predators in Venice, in France, and in other places, the sacred linen in Athens." (Codex Chartularium Culisanense, fol. CXXVI (copia), National Library Palermo)

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