An Italian Catholic priest says the Shroud of Turin, which many believe was the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, was transferred during the World War II to southern Italian city of Avellino, fearing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler leader might steal it. “The Holy Shroud was moved in secrecy to the Campania region. Officially this was to protect it from possible bombing (in Turin). In actual fact, it was moved to hide it from Hitler, who was apparently obsessed by it,” Father Andrea Cardin, director of the library at the Benedictine abbey in Avellino told the Italian weekly Diva e Donna.
“When he (Hitler) visited Italy in 1938, top-ranking Nazi aides asked unusual and insistent questions about the shroud,” he said.
The shroud, which was hidden in 1939, will be put on display on Saturday in Turin where millions of people are expected to view it, English Daily Asian Age reported.
The Vatican and the Italian royal family, the Savoys, who were the guardians and the owners of the shroud, feared Hitler might try to steal the linen cloth.
It was returned to Turin in 1946 on the orders of Umberto II of Italy.
Father Cardin, a Benedictine monk, said German troops almost discovered the shroud at the Montevergine church in 1943 after Italy entered World War II in alliance with Hitler.
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