Word: adamnan
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During the 7th Century two early churchmen, Saints Braulionis and Adamnan of lona, referred to the existence of a cloth venerated as the shroud in which the body of Christ was wrapped when it was laid in the tomb. In 1171 William, Archbishop of Tyre, mentioned such a shroud in Constantinople. In 1204 a member of the Fourth Crusade, which sacked the city, sent the shroud to his father in France. But in 1349 the Church of St. Stephen in Besançon, where it was kept, caught fire, and the shroud seemed to have vanished...
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