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944

944 was the year when the Cloth of Edessa was transferred from Edessa to Constantinople, the Byzantine capital. This began an important era for the burial cloth that many today believe is the Shroud of Turin.

On the day after the cloth’s arrival in Constantinople, Gregory Referendarius, the archdeacon of Hagia Sophia Cathedral, preached a sermon that provides 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.

Historical documents mention it several times during the next two and a half centuries.

In 1204 it disappeared from Constantinople during the sacking of the city by knights of the Fourth Crusades.

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