Lirey
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Aube | |
| Arrondissement | Troyes | |
| Canton | Les Riceys | |
| Community association | Troyes Champagne Métropole | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 9 ' N , 4 ° 3' E | |
| surface | 4.84 km 2 | |
| Residents | 104 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 21 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 11320 | |
| INSEE code | 10198 | |
Lirey is a French commune with 104 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aube department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Champagne-Ardenne ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Troyes and the canton of Les Riceys .
history
The owners of what is now known as the Turin Shroud can be traced back to Geoffroy de Charny and his wife Jeanne de Vergy. How they came into possession of the cloth is not yet known.
On April 16, 1349, Geoffroy de Charny wrote to Pope Clement VI. and informed him of his intention to found a church with five canons in Lirey, the small village of his fief, which was granted to him by the Pope. His capture by the English in the same year delayed the founding of the monastery until July 1, 1353, for which he received an annual pension from King John the Good . The small, wooden collegiate church of Sainte-Marie was finally consecrated in 1356, just a few months before Charny's death, after Pope Innocent VI on August 3, 1354 . Indulgence granted to pilgrims attending Lirey Church. The shroud was first exhibited in this church around 1355/1357. The exact date is not known, nor is it known whether this took place shortly before or after Geoffroy de Charny's death. What has been preserved, however, is a small pilgrim medallion that was found in Paris in the mud of the Seine in 1855, on which the cloth and the coats of arms of Geoffroy de Charny and his second wife Jeanne de Vergy are depicted. Henri de Poitiers, the Bishop of Troyes , mentioned in a letter of May 28, 1356 "the pious devotion of the knight [Geoffroy] with whom he venerated the cloth to this day and every day more venerated" and on June 5 In 1357 twelve bishops of the Holy See in Avignon granted indulgence to all those who visit the church at Lirey and its relics and pray for the souls of the knight Geoffroy and his first wife Jeanne de Toucy.
When marauding gangs threatened the cloth in Lirey, it was brought to a chapel in Saint-Hippolyte by canons for security reasons in 1418 .
The collegiate church was renewed in 1526, destroyed in the revolution and restored in 1897. The altars are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and (since 1828) in neighboring Crésantignes .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2014 |
| Residents | 71 | 77 | 59 | 65 | 93 | 94 | 110 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ian Wilson: The Turin Shroud. Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-15010-8 , p. 378.