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...Germany's Romanesque-Gothic city of Trier, on the Moselle River near the Luxembourg border, thousands of pilgrims crowded to look at a tunic which many believed to be the one Christ wore. Whether "The Robe" (as readers of Lloyd Douglas' bestseller know it) is authentic or not, the 13th Holy Tunic pilgrimage is Roman Catholicism's biggest pilgrimage of this year...
...unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler Ambrose did not mention the tunic, but tradition has it that she gave it to the city of Trier (Augusta Treverorum to the Romans), along with one nail and a piece of the Cross...
Little was heard of the tunic for centuries, but in 1196 a seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...
Metal Badge. Amazed by the tunic's power to draw pilgrims, Pope Leo X and the Archbishop of Trier agreed to display it every seven years. Although wars, revolutions and the Reformation stopped its regular appearance, Tunica Domini never lost its appeal. In 1810 about 250,000 pilgrims went to see it, and at the last showing, in 1933, the tally was 2,000,000. Since Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Frings unveiled the tunic for the 1959 pilgrimage last month, almost a million Roman Catholics have visited the cathedral...
...wait 20 years. Tell me what you would do if you were in my chair.' " Chuck Percy started climbing to that chair almost from the time he learned to walk. Son of the Bell & Howell office manager, he began selling magazines at the age of five, at New Trier high school he held four jobs at once. At the University of Chicago ('41), he ran a business that grossed $150,000 a year selling supplies to fraternities, and thus was, recalls former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins, the richest kid who ever worked his way through college...