and burned at the stake, on Friday the 13th.
I was recruited for Demolay--due to Masons in the family--
but I declined the opportunity to wear those cool rayon robes.
ROME, April 7 (UPI) -- Research suggests the Shroud of Turin -- said to be Jesus' burial cloth -- was hidden by medieval knights for more than a century, the Vatican said Sunday.
The Vatican's weekly newspaper said a researcher in the Vatican Secret Archives has found a document that suggests the shroud was hidden by the Knights Templar and secretly venerated for more than 100 years after the Crusades, The Times of London reported Monday.
The newspaper said the shroud disappeared in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade and was not seen by anyone outside the order until the middle of the fourteenth century.
Researcher Barbara Frale told the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano that the missing years had long puzzled historians. The findings are based on a document in which a young Frenchman who entered the order in 1287 testified that he was instructed to venerate the shroud during his initiation, Frale said.
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GJ - Some claim that the Free Masons came directly from the Knights Templar. The Masonic Lodge has many clones (Red Man's Lodge, Modern Woodmen, Oddfellows) in America. In England the Anglican clergy and the royal family have been the mainstay of the Lodge.
The Shroud has no history until it was connected with the Knights Templar. Some think it is Demolay portrayed as a second Christ. When carbon dating showed the Shroud was new rather than old, the Vatican reworked the story. Why kill the goose that lays such golden eggs? The Shroud is a money-maker.
Here is a story I ran into while searching for a little background.
