Identifier: rhineitssceneryh00hunt (find matches)
Title: The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Hunt, Frederick Knight, 1814-1854. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London, J. How
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of the continued and increasing numbers of devotees towards the close of the term, an additional
week was this year granted.
" The object of all this interest and devotion, the coat without seam of our Saviour, so said to be,
is a simple tunic, apparently of linen or
cotton, of a fabric similar to the closely-
woven mummy-cloth of the Egyptians. It
is undoubtedly of very high antiquity. Its
form is precisely that of the modern Arab
frock or tunic, said by the present natives
of Syria to be of the same shape as that
generally worn by all classes from time im-
memorial. Like the modern dress of the
Arabs, its colour appears to have been ori-
ginally blue, though now discoloured by
time to a rust-coloured brown. When not
girded up at the waist, it would reach to
the ancles, the sleeve reaching to the wrist.
Its history, according to Professor Marx,
who has written an elaborate account of it,
a work having the approval of the bishop,
is authenticated as far back as 1157 by
written testimony, it having been mentioned

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PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SHIRT AT TREVES.

as then existing in the cathedral of Treves, by Frederick I. in a letter addressed to Hillen,
Archbishop of Treves in that year. Its earliest history depends wholly on tradition, which says,
that it was obtained by the Empress Helena in the year 326, while in the Holy Land, whither
she went for the express purpose of obtaining relics of our Saviour and his followers; that she

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gave it to the see of Treves, and that it was deposited in the cathedral of that city ; that it was
afterwards lost, having been hidden in disturbed times within the walls of the cathedral, and
rediscovered under the Archbishop John I., in 1196; that it was again hidden for the same
reason, and brought to light, and exposed to the wondering multitude in 1512, on the occasion
of the famous diet of Treves, under the Emperor Maximilian. I Since this last epoch, says the
author of the work already quoted, the history of the Holy Robe has been often discussed, written,
and sung, because it has been often publicly exposed, and at short intervals, whenever political
troubles have not prevented.'"

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