![]() ![]() Charlemagne gave it to his daughter Theocrate, abbess of Argenteuil, where it was preserved in the church of the Benedictines. Since then, the Bishopric of Trier has conducted an annual ten-day religious festival called the "Heilig-Rock-Tage".Īccording to the Argenteuil tradition, the Empress Irene made a gift of the seamless robe to Charlemagne in about the year 800. The 1996 exhibition of the tunic was seen by over one million pilgrims and visitors. The 1844 exhibition of the relic, on the instructions of Wilhelm Arnoldi, Bishop of Trier, led to the formation of the German Catholics ( Deutschkatholiken), a schismatic sect formed in December 1844 under the leadership of Johannes Ronge. The people of Trier heard about that and demanded to see the Holy Robe. Archbishop Richard von Greiffenklau arranged the opening of the altar that had enshrined the tunic since the building of the Dome and exhibited it. In 1512, during an Imperial Diet, Emperor Maximilian I demanded to see the Holy Robe which was kept in the Cathedral. The relic is normally kept folded in a reliquary and cannot be directly viewed by the faithful. The stigmatist Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth declared that the Trier robe was authentic. The few remaining original sections are not suitable for carbon dating. Sections of taffeta and silk have been added to the robe, and it was dipped in a rubber solution in the 19th century in an attempt to preserve it. Although biographies of Johann I state that this was not the first time the robe was displayed, there are no historical dates or events presented which predate 1196. The history of the Trier robe is certain only from the 12th century, when Archbishop Johann I of Trier consecrated an altar which contained the seamless robe in early 1196. Thus the saying in Scripture was fulfilled: they divided My raiment ( ta imatia) among them, and upon My vesture ( epi ton himatismon) did they cast lots. Therefore, they said among themselves, let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it will become. ![]() Now the coat was without seam, woven whole from the top down. ![]() Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments ( ta himatia) and divided them into four parts, to every soldier a part, and the coat ( kai ton chitona). Himatia (literally "over-garments") and the seamless robe, which is chiton, (literally "tunic" or "coat"). A distinction is made in the New Testament Greek between the One tradition places it in the Cathedral of Trier, another places it in Argenteuil's Basilique Saint-Denys, and several traditions claim that it is now in various Eastern Orthodox churches, notably Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia.Īccording to the Gospel of John, the soldiers who crucified Jesus did not divide his tunic after crucifying him, but cast lots to determine who would keep it because it was woven in one piece, without seam. Competing traditions claim that the robe has been preserved to the present day. The Seamless Robe of Jesus (also known as the Holy Robe, Holy Tunic, Holy Coat, Honorable Robe, and Chiton of the Lord) is the robe said to have been worn by Jesus during or shortly before his crucifixion. The collarless neck of the seamless robe of Jesus ![]()
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