title: The Templars and the Shroud of Christ
author:  Barbara Frale 
description: <b>Dr. Barbara Frale </b>is a historian on staff at the Vatican Secret Archives. An expert in ancient documents, the Templars, and the Crusades, Frale is the author of several books including <i>The Last Battle of the Templars</i>,<i> The Papacy and the Trial of the Templars</i>, and <i>The Templars</i>. She is also the author of the acclaimed <i>The Templars: The Secret History Revealed</i>. Frale earned her PhD at the University of Venice.
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  The Templars and The Shroud of Christ
  
  
    
    
    
    
    
  Barbara Frale
  
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “…the track of its course through the generations is not that of earthly glory
  and earthly power, but the track of the Cross.”
  
  
  Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth,
  
  
  P. 346
  
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  “The Cross alone is our theology.”
  
  
  Martin Luther, Operationes in Psalmos,
  
  
  WA 5, 176, 32-33
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Introduction
  
  
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As I worked on this essay, I noticed a curious fact. Several experts who had
  glanced at the title whilst being shown the work, got the immediate impression
  that it dealt with the Turin Shroud as the true funeral shroud of Jesus
  Christ.
  
  
  I therefore feel the need to warn the reader from the very first page that the
  title says The Templars and the Shroud of Christ because these mediaeval
  warrior monks did almost certainly keep