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Is there not a cloth that is purported to be the one that was wrapped around our Lord's head, housed in a church in Spain. I don't recall the name of the town, but I believe it is Oveida or something similar. Gerry Sinclair ----- Original Message ----- From: Privateers <Privateers@privateers.org> To: <sinclair@mids.org> Sent: September 10, 1999 1:15 AM Subject: Re: Shroud > Dear Tim > > If we all agree that the carbon dating was flawed and that the test proved > nothing we are still faced with proving the shroud, an object "worthy of > veneration" is the burial cloth of our Lord. JSQ has directed my attention > to > The Holy Bible" where in John Chapter 20:Verse 7 it states "And the napkin, > that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped > together in a place by itself." this is not the description of a single > piece of cloth. The shroud is continuous. "the napkin about His head....in > a place by itself" how did the continuous imprint occur? > > This, of course does not advance the argument that de Moley is the imprint > that we see but it lends body to the argument that it is not the imprint of > the living God. To prove something in the negative is hard, > if not impossible. It is all in how you ask the question. > > Did King Robert make a arraignment with the devil when at Bannockburn he > enlisted William Sinclair and the Knights Templer? The Papal Bull had > poscripted them de Molay was burned at the stake. Pope Clement V and > Philippe the fair dead The order disbanded but in Scotland and Portugal > they found refuge, even land and honours. The Scottish rite keeps de Molay > name alive. > > I erred when I stated that the carbon dating was released on the same day > de Moley was burnt it should read the carbon dating was released on the same > day the members of the Order were arrested by Philippe the fair in the > early hours of Friday 13th October 1307 the royal seneschals descended upon > the orders Preceptories everywhere in France and arrested every Templar > that they found. Philips actions were highly illegal, he had no authority to > arrest members of an order responsible only to Rome, but he hoped to justify > his actions with the trumped up accusations provided by two former Templars. > The royal troops forced there way into the Paris Temple and placed the > Grand Master, Jaques de Molay, and 60 more Knights under arrest. The Knights > offered no resistance even though the Paris Temple was built as a highly > defensible installation. William Sinclair was at the time a postulant he was > not arrested they followed a secret order with grandmasters lasting until > 1804 and probably still exists. > > The Bishop of Alba read out on 18 March 1314 the confession of de Molay, he > had been sent to prison for life. The Grandmaster replied > "It is just that, in so terrible a day, and in the last moments of my life, > I should discover all the iniquity of falsehood, and make the truth triumph. > I declare, then, in the face of heaven and earth, and acknowledge, though to > my eternal shame, that I have committed the greatest crimes but it has been > the acknowledging of those which have been so foully charged on the order. I > attest - and truth obliges me to attest - that it is innocent! > I made the contrary declaration only to suspend the excessive pains of > torture, and to mollify those who made me endure them. > I know the punishments which have been inflicted on all the knights who had > the courage to revoke a similar confession; but the dreadful spectacle which > is presented to me is not able to make me confirm one lie by another. > The life offered me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret." > > his reply caused sure furore the when reported to the King Philippe ordered > his immediate death. The order was carried out the next day > > > > The grandmasters that we after de Molay know the name of are under noted > > Bannockburn was 24 June 1314 shortly after the quasi-judicial murder of de > Molay. 19 March 1314. The wounds on the shroud are consistent with de > Molays. I will wait with interest, God willing, for your book to view > evidence of the shroud being that of Christ. I have seen none only arguments > over a Scientific test which on propensity of evidence is flawed. > > Sinclair > > under note > > Johannes Marcus Theobald > Arnald de Braque > John de Clermont > Bertrand Gueselin > John of L'Armagnac > Bernard of L'Armagnac > John of L'Armagnac > John Croviacensis > Robert de Lenoncoud > Galeas Salazar > Philip de Chabot > Gaspard Cesinia > Henry Montmorency > Charles Valasius > James Rufelius > John de Dufort of Thonass > Philip of Orleans > Louis Auguste Bourbon of Maine > Bourbon-Conde > Louis Francois Bourbon-Conty > De Cosse-Brissac > Claude Matthew Radix-de-Chevillon > Bernard Raymond > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tim Wallace-Murphy <tim@templartim.freeserve.co.uk> > To: <sinclair@mids.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 10:51 PM > Subject: Re: Laird > > > > Dear friends, > > > > Re the shroud, suggest you read Ian Wilson's "The Blood and the Shroud" > and > > more importantly, Garza-Valdes own book, "The DNA of God" which, despite > its > > appalling title provides a compelling scientific argument for a > > re-assessment ofthe carbon dating. Early next spring, Element Books are to > > publish our latest work, "Rex Deus: the True Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau" > > which lays out,insomedetail, how the Templars held the Shroud for over a > > century before it passed into the hands ofd the de Charney family. > > > > Best wishes > > > > Tim > > > > [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org > > [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html > > [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org > [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html > [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html