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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH by Ordericus Vitalis (1130):
“Abgar the ruler reigned at Edessa; the Lord Jesus sent him a sacred letter and a beautiful linen cloth he had wiped the sweat from his face with. The image of the Saviour was miraculously imprinted on to it and shines out, displaying the form and size of the Lord’s body to all who look on it.”
From a book by Robert de Clari of the 4th Crusade (1203):
“There was another church which was called My Lady St Mary of Blachernae, where there was the sydoine in which Our Lord had been wrapped, which every Friday stood upright, so that one could see the figure of Our Lord on it.”
“No one, either Greek or French, ever knew what became of this sydoine when the city was taken.”
In the 5th century St. Augustine wrote in DE Trinitate VIII:-- “We do not know of his external appearance. . .”
The Face of Jesus depicted as Christ Pantocrator, from a sixth century icon at the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, has at least 170 points of congruence with the facial image of the Shroud of Turin. The Byzantine Tremissis coin depicting Christ, A.D. 692, has 188 points of congruence. The Byzantine Solidus coin, A.D. 631, has 145 points.
In a letter from Theodore Angelos-Kommenos to Pope Innocent III (1205):
“The Venetians appropriated 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 his resurrection. We know that the sacred objects are preserved by their predators, in Venice, in France and other places, the sacred linen in Athens.”
