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Giacomo Colonna, the person who in 1421 supposedly found the old Letter of Lentulus, with a physical description of Jesus, has very little info about him out there. Who was he? For what reasons is the letter considered apocryphal/fake?

by /u/LukeInTheSkyWith in /r/AskHistorians

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