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When was the Edessa Cloth removed from Edessa?
In 944, Emperor Romanus I sent an army to remove the Edessa Cloth and transfer it to Constantinople. There are many references to it after 944. In 1080, Alexis Comnenus of Constantinople sought assistance from Emperor Henry IV and Robert of Flanders to protect some of the city’s relics including “the cloth found in the sepulcher after the resurrection.” A Roman codex in 1130 speaks of the cloth “on which the image, not only of My face, but of My whole body has been divinely transformed.”
See: What is the Image of Edessa? When was the Edessa Cloth removed from Constantinople?
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