Lentorama 2021: Take Your Holiday to Go

Day 33: Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet

Set on the day before Ash Wednesday, this feast was proclaimed by Pope Pius XII in 1958 to honor what we now call the Shroud of Turin. It's not the first feast to celebrate the winding sheet of Jesus, and not even the first to celebrate a winding sheet of Jesus. There were two other feasts of this name that celebrated winding sheets other than the one currently in Turin. There was also a feast in 1831 which wasn't dedicated to any particular winding sheet, which seems like a good idea given the multiplicity of winding sheets.

There aren't any specific celebrations related to this day other than church services, at least that I could find. The keepers of the Shroud of Turin have a website with a video of the most recent service, but not much else about this subject in particular. Plenty on the Shroud itself, of course.