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...controversy when art-historians suggested its outline of Christ's body was painted by a French artist in the 14th Century. Guarded day and night by six stalwart carabinieri, its three weeks' ostension last year drew 1,500,000 pilgrims from the ends of the earth. In Cadouin, France, is another Holy Shroud, venerated since the 12th Century, and at Echmiadzin, Armenia, is a Holy Coat which, too precious to be seen, has been sealed beneath a pulpit for 1,600 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Relics | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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