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Comment on Wikipedia Text: possible connection to the Knights Templar
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possible connection to the Knights Templar
some historians have speculated that the cloth may have passed into the hands to the Knights Templar soon after 1204. The Templars were a powerful, rich and secretive organization. Under the French King, Phillip IV, efforts to suppress the organization and acquire their assets resulted in charges being leveled against many of the leaders and members. In 1307, leaders of the Templars were executed, including Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar. One of the executed leaders was a knight called Geoffrey de Charny, possibly a relative of the Geoffrey de Charny who displayed the shroud in Lirey about 50 years later.
But there is another historically sound possibility. Historian Dan Scavone has proposed that the shroud was taken to Besançon, France, early after its disappearance from Constantinople. There is some evidence that it was acquired by Geoffrey de Charny before 1349 when he wrote to Pope Clement VI stating his intention to build a church at Lirey.
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