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historians agree that the copy kept in Santiago del Estero arrived
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The Holy Shroud was kept in a metal box in the Cathedral of Chambery (France). In 1532, when the Cathedral caught fire, the Sacred Shroud was saved, repaired and wrapped up between two mantles. After several years, when they took out the shroud and the two cloths that covered it, the two mantles had the marks of the sacred body, too. The Pope ordered that the Holy Shroud be kept in Turín, and that one copy be given to France as it had guarded the Shroud for more than two centuries, and the second copy be given to Spain. By the end of the Sixteenth Century, King Phillip II sent the Spanish copy to America. |
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chose Santiago del Estero for it was the first town founded in this
world. The Jesuits are considered to have brought the relic to America
and the ones who have guarded it until they were expelled from America
in the Eighteenth Century. In 1767, when the inventory of the goods
of the Order was taken, the Shroud was written down as belonging
to them. The Dominican Order is in charge or its custody nowadays.
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