VEIL OF THE VIRGIN
PRECIOUS CHARTRES RELIC.
The Veil of the Virgin, which has been for eleven centuries at the cathedral of Chartres, is the most precious of its relics. It is exhibited every weekday from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 5 p.m„ and all the afternoon on Sundays, attracting thousands of pilgrims. The veil was presented to the Emperor Charlemagne by Constantine Porphyregenitus and was first kept at Aux la-Chapelle, but transferred by Charles the Bald in the year 887 to Chartres, where it has been ever since. The jewelled reliquary in which the veil is kept is in the choir behind the master altar of the cathedral.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1939, Page 8
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112VEIL OF THE VIRGIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1939, Page 8
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