Religion: The Robe

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

—John 19: 23-24

In Germany's Romanesque-Gothic city of Trier, on the Moselle River near the Luxembourg border, thousands of pilgrims crowded to look at a tunic which many believed to be the one Christ wore. Whether "The Robe" (as readers of Lloyd Douglas' bestseller know it) is authentic or not, the 13th Holy Tunic pilgrimage is Roman Catholicism's biggest pilgrimage...

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