The Holy Robe of Trier (Diocese of Trier institutional record)

This entry draws on the Diocese of Trier's own institutional account of the Holy Robe, the seamless garment tradition holds Christ wore to Calvary and which the cathedral has displayed to pilgrims since the medieval period, most recently in 2012 to roughly half a million visitors. That institutional record is a reliable source for facts about custody, display history and the pilgrimage's organization, since the diocese is the direct custodian and organizer. It is not, and does not claim to be, independent historical verification of the relic's first century origin, which rests on unbroken tradition rather than documented provenance back to the crucifixion, a gap true of most relics of its kind and one the diocese's own presentation of the Holy Robe treats as a matter of faith and veneration rather than a historically settled fact.