Vatican thwarted Nazi plot for Turin Shroud
An Italian monk has claimed that during WWII, the Vatican evaded a plot by Adolf Hitler to steal the Turin Shroud…
The religious icon, famed for depicting the image of Jesus, is regarded and guarded as one of the Catholic Churches most sacred relics.
And according to Father Andrea Cardin, librarian of the Montevergine abbey, in a recent interview by Italian magazine Diva e Donna, the relic was equally coveted by Hitler prompting the Vatican to intervene and take the Shroud into hiding.
He said: ‘The Holy Shroud was moved in secret to the sanctuary in the Campania region on the precise orders of the Royal House of Savoy (which owned it at the time) and the Vatican.
‘Officially this was to protect it from possible bombing in Turin. In reality, it was moved to hide it from Hitler who was apparently obsessed by it.
‘When he visited Italy in 1938, his top-ranking Nazi aides asked unusual and insistent questions about the Shroud.
‘Then in 1943 when German troops searched the Montevergine church, the monks there pretended to be in deep prayer before the altar inside which the relic was hidden.
‘This was the only reason it wasn’t discovered. Then in 1946 it was returned to Turin, as instructed by (Italy’s last king) Umberto II of Savoy, and remains preserve there in that city’s cathedral.’
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