The Holy Shroud

The Holy Shroud was gifted by King John II to Geoffroi de Charny, the most renowned knight of the Middle Ages, who shortly thereafter died at the disastrous Battle of Poitiers. Though intended as nothing more than an innocuous devotional image for Geoffroi's newly-built church, it was soon misrepresented. Miracles were faked, money was made. Combining copious research and decades of art world experience, Gary Vikan shows how one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of Christian relics came into being--