Candace and I talked about the Knights Templar and their controversial end in our podcast “How Knights Work,” but a recent discovery has revealed how the Medieval religious order secretly hid the Shroud of Turin for more than a century. For a quick refresher — the Templar order was originally established to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land in the First Crusade, but was later accused of corruptions by its debtor, the king of France. After a trial, the pope agreed to have them forcibly disbanded, and many were burned at the stake in the 14th century.

According to a story in the Times Online, a recently discovered document from the Vatican’s secret archives has revealed that the knights hid and venerated the Shroud of Turin. The shroud is a linen cloth that displays the image of a man — many believe this is the cloth Jesus was buried in, and that it is an image of him.