In 1502 , the royal House of Savoy, who ruled Italy throughout the 16th century, placed the holy shroud in the Sainte-Chapelle in Chambéry, in what is now France, according to History. The shroud was stored in a protective silver container, where it remained for 30 years. However, in 1532, a fire broke out and burned through the inside of the chapel. The shroud miraculously survived the fire, although it was not completely unscathed. The silver container in which it was stored partially melted, and some of the remnants fell onto the shroud. The cloth suffered some burn marks and water damage that mar the fabric to this day. 

The shroud was then moved to the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Turin, Italy in 1578, where it has stayed ever since. Even there, however, it wasn’t entirely out of harm’s way. In April of 1997, the church fell victim to a devastating fire, which burned for five hours and caused millions of dollars’ worth of damage, according to an Associated Press story posted by the Spokesman-Review. Luckily, thanks to quick-acting firefighters who were able to break through the bulletproof glass that protected the icon, the Shroud of Turin was removed from the building before any significant harm was done to the cloth. The Holy Shroud remains in the now-restored San Giovanni Battista, and fortunately, no other fires have threatened the preservation of the shroud since then.