Shroud Damage in 1532 Fire
In 1502, the Shroud is given a
permanent home in the Royal Chapel of Chambéry Castle.
In 1532, a fire breaks out
in the chapel, which is seriously damaged by molten silver that
fell on one corner of the folded cloth, resulting in eight roughly
symmetrical burin patters and two burn lines running the length of
the cloth.
In April 1534, Chambéry's Poor Clare nuns
repaired the Shroud by sewing it onto a backing cloth and sewing patches over the
worst of the damage. These repairs should not be confused with the
earlier expert reweaving repairs that affected the carbon 14
dating. These patches and the backing cloth were removed during
the restoration of the Shroud in 2002.
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