The Shroud of Saint-Josse, Musée du Louvre

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The Shroud of Saint-Josse, Musée du Louvre

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The Shroud of Saint-Josse, now in the collections of the Musée du Louvre, is a silk samite saddle cloth that was woven in northeastern Iran for Abu Mansur Bakhtegin, some time before 961.
When the precious textile was brought back from the First Crusade by Étienne de Blois it was dedicated as a votive gift at the Abbey of Saint-Josse, near Boulogne. In its new surroundings the 10th-century Islamic textile was was used to wrap the remains of Saint Josse, a 7th-century saint from Brittany, France.

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“The Shroud of Saint-Josse, Musée du Louvre,” HAA Image Hosting, accessed May 9, 2026, https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/1808.

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