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• 60-62, the traditional date for the writing of Mark, the first gospel, many took it upon themselves to write narratives of the life of Christ, which we can intimate from Luke's opening remarks, contained some greater or lesser degree of reliability (Luke 1:1-4). Luke, having researched the matter from the apostles themselves, was stirred to write his own account of the historical Christ with such space-time precision that he fully guaranteed to his Roman correspondent, Theophilus, that what he had only heard about Christ to that time was nevertheless true and verifiable. The apostles Matthew and John also contributed their eyewitness accounts and soon these four gospels were accepted by the church as accurate representations of the life of Christ Jesus. ...
• In these four historical narratives, we find the evidence for the resurrection which centers upon the burial tomb. ...
• On the third day, Christ's crucified body was gone. ... Removal of Christ's body was necessarily either a human act or an act of God. Either Christ was raised as is claimed, or his body was removed by some sort of human ingenuity. ...
• While it has actually been suggested that the disciples themselves, at some undisclosed time, somehow stole past the guards to spirit away the body of Christ, Matthew tells us that sufficient steps were taken to prevent that very thing from happening. ...
• Who could believe that the guards were all sleeping at once, or that at least one of them would not have been awakened by several men rolling back the stone, seeing that "it was exceeding great" (Mark 16:4)? Who could believe that not one of the guards was awakened during the time it took to roll back the stone, unwrap the corpse, and then rewrap the burial cloths to make it appear that they had not been tampered with? Who could believe it? It would be easier to believe the resurrection. Any suggestion that the disciples removed the body of Christ is mere speculation without evidence and contrary to existing evidence. ...
• Another speculative theory suggests that the Jews themselves took the body of Christ out of the tomb and put it in another place to keep the disciples from reverencing the tomb. But that action would have been completely contrary to their own statement of purpose to keep the body of Christ in the tomb until the third day after the crucifixion. ...
• Who opened and emptied the tomb of Christ? On the basis of the evidence, it is reasonable to conclude that the disciples could not have done it and that the Jews certainly would not have done it. ...
• One of the most interesting aspects of the evidence for the resurrection is the grave cloths in which Jesus was prepared for burial. ...
• They were lying in the same folded position which formed the outline of the body of Jesus when he had been "Found" in them for burial (Mark 15:46). The burial garments were not disheveled; the tomb was not a strewn mess. ... The grave cloths were found lying just as they had been originally folded around the body of Christ. ... Jewish Burial Customs.

• Evidence of the risen Christ?.
• Special Easter report sheds new light on reputed burial cloths of Jesus.
• The March edition of WND's acclaimed monthly magazine, Whistleblower concludes with an in-depth and stunning report on the Shroud of Turin – the 14-foot-long piece of linen believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. ...
• ” The real problem, claim Shroud supporters, is not that an ancient cloth that covered a crucified victim still exists after two thousand years. Said one researcher: “Do you think that if the ancient burial sheet of a sandal maker had been discovered with a scroll that read, ‘here lies Benjamin the Sandal Maker,’ that the scientific world fall all over itself to prove that it could not be Benjamin the Sandal Maker?” .
• Titled "The first Christian martyr," this eye-opening report on the Shroud – as well as the lesser known Sudarium of Oveido, believed to be the face-cloth of the entombed Jesus – begins with the reactions of visitors who view the Shroud in person: .

• The shroud has been preserved by the Roman Catholic Church as the burial cloth of Christ and kept as a relic in a church in Turin, Italy, for centuries. ...
• ___The findings conflict with other studies of the shroud, which some believe was the burial cloth of Jesus. ...
• ___But Danin believes the shroud is much older because of links made between pollen grains and blood stains on both the shroud and the Sudarium of Oviedo, which some believe is the burial face cloth of Jesus. That cloth has been in the Cathedral of Oviedo in Spain since the eighth century.
• ___"There's no possibility that this cloth in Oviedo and the shroud would have both the same blood stains and these pollen grains unless they were covering the same body," Danin told Religion News Service. ...
• ___Danin said pollen grains of the thistle Gundelia tournefortii were found on both the shroud and the cloth housed in Oviedo. ...
• ___"Those flowers would be fresh in the fields around Jerusalem" and "readily available for a burial" at that time, he said.

• The reply: What does the Bible say? The pieces of cloth used to cover the crucified body of Jesus Christ in the tomb are mentioned in the gospel of John, chapter 20:6-8 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. ... What is the Shroud? Jesus' burial shroud would have been a fairly long single piece of white linen, and of course its appearance would have made quite an impact on Christians. Indeed, a number of reported sightings of "the Shroud" occurred in the centuries following Christ's resurrection, until it first appeared in a church in Lirey, France in the 1350's. ... falsely and deceitfully, being consumed with the passion of avarice and not from any motive of devotion but only of gain, procured for their church a certain cloth cunningly painted, upon which by clever sleight of hand was depicted the twofold image of one man, that is to say the back and front, they falsely declaring and pretending that this was the actual Shroud in which our Savior Jesus Christ was enfolded in the tomb. ... There has always been, and are today, a number of people who accept without question that the Shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus. ... If this was Jesus' burial shroud, it would have a much older Carbon-14 date. Recently (1996), however, a scientific team has argued that materials like linen cloth build up a thin layer of fungi and bacteria on them over the centuries. ... And European churches had developed an elaborate Easter liturgy which not only included a re-enactment of Jesus crucifixion and burial, but sometimes also included a burial shroud. ... Many question whether God would want the burial cloth of Jesus to be found and venerated - the Bible is full of examples where God deliberately wiped away tangible evidence so that we would have to make up our minds on faith alone (e. ... Moses' body and burial place; the Ark of the Covenant; the Temple itself). ...

• BELIEF The Shroud of Turin, a 14'3" long cloth that was alleged to have been the burial cloth of Jesus, first showed up in a small village in France in 1357. Roman Catholic scholars have attempted to minimize the importance of the shroud's having been missing for over 13 centuries, and some tried to establish its validity because it was said the features of the man plainly seen on the shroud was very like religious icons of Christ that can be traced back to the 6th century. ...
• It was at this time that the group of scientists had the opportunity to subject the cloth to a series of analyses which caused the conclusion by some of the men that it was authentic. ...
• An article from Turin, Italy by Robert Suro, from the New York Times News Service and printed in THE OREGONIAN on 10/14/88 states that the Roman Catholic Church says tests show that the Shroud of Turin could not possibly be Jesus' burial cloth. Tests conducted independently by three laboratories concluded that the shroud cloth was created between 1260 and 1390. Archbishop Ballestrero of Turin said that they don't have any answers to explain how the image of Christ was created on the shroud. ...
• The church has never proclaimed that the shroud was Jesus' burial cloth, but it certainly has not discouraged that belief. ...
• Typically, today's priests claim that `the ONLY proof of the Resurrection of Christ is today's testimony of the Christian communities. ...
• CHRISTIAN COMMENT Christians certainly do not hold to the exactness of radio-carbon dating, and have always found it more authentic to ask "What does the Bible say?" Scriptural proof that this shroud, a 14'3" long cloth with both facial and bodily imprints, is a fraud comes when we study John 11:44 and 20:7. The Jewish custom was to wrap the head in a separate linen cloth, and Jesus was buried as was the manner of the Jews (John 19:40). ...
• Isaiah 52:14 says of Christ, "His visage was so marred more than any man", and the face on the shroud shows no evidence of this. The Shroud of Turin is just another of Satan's counterfeits designed to obscure the true Christ of the Bible. ...
• "The Shroud of Turin, a cloth alleged by many to be Jesus' burial garment, may not be the Medieval creation that scientists claimed it was last fall, at least in the opinion of some scientists and Roman Catholic leaders. ...
• The carbon test on the Shroud dated it around 1250 AD(the year of our LORD) what scientists don't tell you about is, in Eygpt in a tumb dating back to 1500 BC they pulled out a bird rapped in cloth and carbon dated it. ...
• 12 men risked their lives to talk about Jesus Christ because it was not true or because it was true. ...

• The Shroud of Turin is a ancient linen cloth believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. ...
• the linen contains blood stains consistent with the crucifixion account of Christ's wounds. ...
• One particularly interesting fact which calls the 13th/14th century dating into question is the existence of another relic called the Cloth of Oviedo. This cloth is said to be the sudarium, a cloth which wrapped the face of Jesus as they carried him to the tomb. ... The Cloth of Oviedo is considered at least 7th century. ...

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• It leaves on e in no doubt about the authenticity of this cloth. ...

• The authenticity of the Shroud of Turin has been intensely debated since 1898, when Italian photographer Secondo Pia photographed the cloth and was shocked to see a clear image when he viewed the negative. Certainly interest has grown by leaps and bounds in the three decades since scientists were first allowed to test fragments of the cloth.
• He believes it to be the true burial cloth of Jesus Christ and, even more important, tangible evidence of the resurrection!.
• Thus far, no one has found a way to produce a similar effect on cloth, even with modern technology.
• Computer imaging has determined that the cloth's unique three-dimensional properties make it distinct from paintings as well as standard photographs. ...
• While science continues to investigate how the image was formed, its probable date of origin, and how best to preserve it, for Professor Wiebe, the shroud is the place where faith in Christ and evidence that He was crucified and resurrected intersect.
• I was overwhelmed with the truth of the resurrection and utterly convinced that I was looking at, not just the image of Christ, but at His Blood. ...
• Emerging from a rebellious teenage religious scepticism, he decided that Christ was probably a person who existed and had an impact on many but "Who didn't do any of the things attributed to Him, and certainly didn't rise from the dead!".
• He now believes the shroud offers empirical evidence of Christ's existence as a man who lived at a certain historical time and in a certain geographical place until he was crucified, died, and through God's miraculous and astonishing intervention, was resurrected.
• "As I make clear in my public lectures, of the 50 or 60 items of evidence, no one thing alone proves that the shroud is the burial cloth of Christ. ...
• Visions of Christ throughout history have provided additional evidence that He has been seen since death.
• Peter and John run to the tomb, see the burial clothes, and immediately believe.
• Jesus didn't go but, after His death, the disciple Thaddeus visited the king, bringing with him, so the story goes, a cloth bearing the image of Jesus.
• The king's son however, rejected Christianity and the cloth was hidden away. Shroud historian Ian Wilson says that it surfaced 400 years later in Edessa when, after a flood, a wall cracked and a cloth with the image of a man was discovered in a niche. ...
• "Wilson has postulated that, if it was considered a burial shroud, people would be queasy about handling it, so the keepers unveiled it as a picture with the head exposed and the rest of the body image concealed. The face has a much higher concentration of pollen coming from Constantinople than other parts of the cloth, enhancing Wilson's theory that the mandylion is the shroud. ...

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• OVIEDO, Spain -- Scientists and forensic specialists gathered in Oviedo, Spain, this week to examine an obscure relic that many have claimed authenticates the Shroud of Turin -- believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.   The Sudarium of Oviedo is reportedly the other linen cloth found in the tomb of Christ, as described in the Gospel of John. ... he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths, but rolled up in a separate place. " This head cloth, the sudarium, has become the focus of increasing debates over the validity of the carbon-14 tests on the Shroud of Turin. ...   However, the scientific community is divided over the shroud dates because -- with the exception of the carbon dating tests -- medical, artistic, forensic and botanical evidence favors the authenticity of the shroud of Turin as the burial cloth of Jesus.   One example of microscopic testing that supports the Shroud as authentic is the 1978 sample of dirt taken from the foot region of the burial linen. ... Unlike the Shroud, the Sudarium, which covered the face of Christ for a short time before the body was wrapped in the longer burial cloth, does not carry an image of a man. Instead, the cloth, held against a face of a man who had been beaten about the head, shows a distinct facial impression and pattern of stains. The cloth is impregnated with blood and lymph stains that match the blood type on the Shroud of Turin. The pattern and measurements of stains indicate the placement of the cloth over the face. ...   Part of Jewish burial custom was to cover the face of the dead, sparing the family further distress.

• Those who view this sacred and holy relic fall into two camps, those that believe it to be the undisputed earthly evidence of a Christ risen and those who believe it to be a medieval forgery.
• Among them were the Knights Templar, whom some scholars contend took the Burial shroud of Jesus from the city. To support this theory, author Ian Wilson who wrote the book "The Shroud of Turin: Burial Cloth Of Jesus?" makes the claim that the head that the Templars were accused of worshipping was none other than that of Jesus. His belief is that the Shroud when folded depicted the head of Christ and was referred to as the "Mandylion. ...
• Lomas and Knight further believe that lactic acid and blood from DeMolay's tortured body mixed with frankincense (used to whiten the cloth) etching his image into the shroud. ...
• When the shroud was first put on display in 1357 (50 years after the disbanding of the order) by the family of Geoffrey de Charney who was also burned at the stake with De Molay, the first people viewing the shroud recognized the image to be that of Christ.
• The authors theorize that Jacques de Molay may have been tortured in a manner similar to Christ as a mockery. Certainly then, the wounds suffered by De Molay where the same as those of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
• Today it is commonly believed by many, through carbon dating, that the shroud dates to the late 13th century and not to the date of Christ's supposed crucifixion. ...

• Subtitle: Strong Circumstantial Evidence Concerning The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ From The Dead .
• God intended that these feasts be "types" of the future Messiah and they were all  fufilled to the very letter as "antitypes" in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ...
• 59 And Joseph took the body and rolled it up in a clean linen cloth used for swathing dead bodies, 60 And laid it in his own fresh undefiled tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away. ...
• 46 And Joseph bought a (fine) linen cloth for swathing dead bodies , and taking Him down from the cross, he rolled Him up in the (fine) linen cloth; and placed Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock. ...
• 53 Then he took it down and rolled it up in a linen cloth for swathing dead bodies, and laid Him in a rock-hewn tomb, where no one had ever yet been laid. ...
• 40 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices (aromatics), as is the Jew's customary way to prepare for burial. ... 7 But the burial napkin (or kerchief) which had been around Jesus' head, was not lying with the other linen cloths, but was still rolled up--wrapped round and round--in a place by itself. ...
• And as we carefully note the exact wording, we will discover why "the other disciple" in the Gospel of John (most scholars believe it was John himself) only had to see the evidence to believe that the Lord had truly risen from among the dead! What did he see that was so convincing? Remember I said at the outset that the tomb was not actually empty--the linen burial cloths were left behind. ... Note that in verse 7 of John's account above, that the burial napkin is described as being distinct from the other cloths--so the plurality does not exist between the napkin and another cloth, singular. The reason I want to call attention to this is because of the so-called "Shroud of Tourin"--held by the Catholic Church to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. According to what I have been taught about the burial ritual of the Jews, many strips of linen were used to wrap the body and not just a single sheet of cloth, as is the case with the "Shroud. ... The strips were wrapped about the body up to the neck and the final cloth, or napkin, was wound about the head--in a "mummy" fashion, perhaps a burial custom  learned centuries earlier during Israel's stay in Egypt? .
• The evidence of the resurrection and the subsequent appearance of the Lord to His disciples in the upper room, transformed those men from cowering in fear to giants of the faith--faithfully proclaiming the truth of Jesus Christ far and wide. ...
• If you have been born again and received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. ...
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• What is the Shroud of Turin? We are told that it is the burial cloth of Christ. ... The cloth was long and unusually woven, and was laid to the body heat to foot in length, covering both the front and the back. ...
• Combined with the spices, sweat consisting of ureic acid, white corpuscular ooze and blood the cloth reacted chemically as if it were a photographic plate and the image impregnated itself onto the cloth, as if exposed to a great, bright light. ... The Shroud consequently is considered to be one of the holiest relics in all Christendom because the image on the cloth is believed to be that of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, the Son of God, and it gives a perfect record of His suffering and death for our remembrance. ...
• To the west it emphasizes the humanity of Christ which was raised to the level of Divinity, while to the eastern Christians it defines Deification of the body and sanctions all images of Christ as approved for veneration. ... The Cloth since it was the last thing that Our Lord had touched was taken by the apostles and placed in storage for according to Judaic Law it was defiling to touch the body or the burial clothes of the dead. ... No laws up until then had been set aside by Christ's ministry. ... So in order to protect the faithful, the apostles had a cloth cover made for it, which had a hole in the front panel, so that the face of Christ could show through if the Shroud were folded up into three or four folds. ...
• When the apostles received a letter from King Agbar the Black of Armenia asking for them to send the famous cloth so that it could cure his illness, the apostles sent it from Jerusalem to Armenia. ...
• One of the proofs of authenticity which is used in the Shroud argument is that the image on the Shroud and the icons of Christ was an image of Zeus which had been in one of the pagan temples of the empire. But all icons of Christ show a fold of cloth at the neck of the garment, which is reproced exactly on the Shroud distorted by the connection between the face and the neck as if the cloth held a wrinkle when it was exposed to the great light, leaving a shadow of a fold. ... stone, cloth, skin, etc. ... No Zeus image has ever been found which has a neck defect such as is evident in the Shroud or the icons of Christ which were painted afterwards. ... This was quite common in church piety, so it would account for blobs of paint appearing in the cloth of the original Shroud. ...
• The fact that the body had been crowned with thorns which was an unusual punishment also bodes well for forensic proof of authenticity as does blood patterns on the cloth, leakage systems, and rigor mortis. ... Three poker holes are found in the legs of Christ at knee level on the copies and they are not found on the original because the fire burned that area and the nuns sewed patches into the holes to make the Shroud whole again. ... When samples of the pollen embedded in the cloth are taken the grains of flowers which no longer grow in the Holy Land are evident. ... Recently it has been rumored that around Easter the image itself has begun to weep tears which can be seen coursing down the cloth and actually erasing some of the darker markings of the image. The cheeks of Christ now are tear stained. ... It is estimated that within the next ten years the image on the Shroud will be so defaced that we will no longer recognize the face of Christ anymore. ...

• The Holy Shroud is a length of ancient linen preserved in Turin, Italy, and venerated there since 1578 as the actual burial cloth of Christ. ... The cloth is 14 feet, 3 inches long, and 3 feet, 7 inches wide. ...
• When Secundo Pia photographed the cloth for the first time in 1898, he was merely seeking an exact copy of the image. ...
• The tradition was that this was an imprint of Christ's bruised Body. Some claimed it was a painted image of Christ's Body. ...
• On the contrary, it was outlined only by a delicate stain completely absorbed by the cloth. No medieval artist could have painted a negative image or the medical details visible on the cloth. ... (3) The man of the Shroud is none other than Christ -- a perfect case of circumstantial evidence resulting from a comparison of the imprint with the Gospel narrative of the.
• Even if it is granted that the image is certainly the imprint of a human body, maltreated as was the Body of Christ during His Passion, it remains possible that the imprint was left by some other body that had been subjected to similar violence, and this either by coincidence or, more probably, with the deliberate intent of simulating the wounds of Christ's Passion. Various attempts were made to explain the origin of the negative image on the cloth. Vignon finally explained its origin as the result of chemical action-powdered aloes sprinkled on the cloth and urea in the sweat that covered the dead body. ...
• One of the earliest references to the preservation of a shroud of Christ is dated in the 5th or 6th century and is ascribed to St. ... Several significant references to a shroud of Christ with mention of the imprint of the sacred body we found in the Mozarabic rite and date from the 7th century. In Byzantine art, beginning in the 5th or 6th century, Christ was frequently represented with details that are visible upon the Shroud of Turin. Replicas of a shroud with the image of the dead Christ were used in the Byzantine liturgy at least as early as the 7th century - a use still observed today on Good Friday. John Geometer, a priest of Constantinople, at the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century spoke explicitly of the image of Christ on a shroud. ...

• In the "truth is stranger than fiction category" a phone call to NASA's JPL from a member of the Christ Brotherhood in New Mexico, requesting image analysis of a religious relic, has drawn two men from JPL's image processing lab into a fascinating investigation of the famous "Shroud of Turin. ...
• 62 centimeter long linen cloth that bears a remarkably detailed image of a bearded, long-haired man, with numerous lacerations over his body. ...
• , has it that the fabric, with its brownish, stain-like shadings, is the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. ...
• JPL's Donald Lynn and Jean Lorre were drawn into the quest for further information about the relic when the Christ Brotherhood members and representatives of a New York based Holy Shroud Guild contacted them last year. ...
• Was the body image formed from ammonia vapors absorbed into the linen threads, as thought in earlier years? Was it caused by a radiation phenomenon, as one analysis has indicated, or by processes of which scientists are still unaware? Are the dark spots at the wrists and feet direct-contact blood stains? Is the image possibly a "picture" that was painted on? And how could investigators better distinguish between the original image and blemishes such as holes, wrinkles, and burns, scorching and water stains that damaged the cloth during a fire in the Sainte Chapelle in Chamery in 1532? .
• Is this cloth really 2000 years old? Is the image truly the imprint of a human corpse? If so, whose image is it ? And, especially from the scientific viewpoint, how did that image get there?" .
• The Shroud of Turin, that ancient burial cloth mysteriously imprinted with a figure thought to resemble Jesus Christ, is dramatically affecting the lives of two JPL scientists. ...
• Turin authorities declined to accept the proposed age-dating tests until it is determined exactly how much cloth is needed to get accurate results. ...
• Although the shroud has been stitched to a protective cloth backing, the reverse side of the fragile fabric will be examined also, by using a flexible optical instrument. ...
• Based on the relationship between image intensity (shades from black to white) and cloth-body distance, Air Force Academy professors and students built a cardboard model of the shroud's figure. ...

• We have recently received correspondence wishing us to make an important point: that blood taken from the famous Shroud of Turin, thought to be the burial cloth of Christ, is reported to be Type AB. ...
• It was during the eighth century that a Communion Host is said to have suddenly changed into actual Flesh and Blood of Christ while a doubting priest -- no longer sure of the Real Presence -- was celebrating Mass. ...
• The Sudarium -- reputedly the burial face cloth of Jesus -- has no image but does have the fascinating blood stains, which have been analyzed. Both tradition and scientific studies claim that the cloth was used to cover and clean the face of Jesus after the Crucifixion. ...
• So three major Christian relics that are supposed to have Christ's Blood do have blood-derived particles and all three also indicate type AB -- found in less than four percent of the population. ...

• Title: The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ? .
• Keywords: HOLY SHROUD JESUS CHRIST RELICS RELIGION ANTIQUITIES ARCHAEOLOGY .

• Is the Shroud of Turin the first recorded photograph of the Lord Jesus Christ, or is it a hoax? The last I heard about this, they had determined that it was probably authentic. Has anyone heard anything new concerning this? Could this be the burial cloth of Christ? .
• <<<Is the Shroud of Turin the first recorded photograph of the Lord Jesus Christ, or is it a hoax? The last I heard about this, they had determined that it was probably authentic. Has anyone heard anything new concerning this? Could this be the burial cloth of Christ?>>>1. ... The image does not conform to Jewish burial practice. ... 16:4,and we would worship the piece of cloth,so why would God leave a piece of cloth to us?God is a spirit. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is a fake as far as the burial cloth of Christ. If you read the biblical accounts of how they prepared Christ, he was wrapped in cloth, inconsistent with the Shroud of Turin. ... When will we learn that you can't prove Christ to the unsaved by the physical or historical. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is a fake as far as the burial cloth of Christ. If you read the biblical accounts of how they prepared Christ, he was wrapped in cloth, inconsistent with the Shroud of Turin. ...
• Notice that the face was bound about, separately, by a napkin,which is unlike what the shroud shows,a continous piece of cloth covering everything from the head to the feet. ...
• Notice that the face was bound about, separately, by a napkin,which is unlike what the shroud shows,a continous piece of cloth covering everything from the head to the feet. ...

• The Shroud of Turin - believed by many to be the burial wrap of Jesus - dates back to Jerusalem no later than the eighth century, an Israeli scientist says. ...
• The findings, based on an analysis of pollen and plant images on the cloth, contradict previous carbon-dating studies that estimated the cloth originated 500 to 700 years later - in Europe of the Middle Ages.
• In the samples taken from the cloth, Danin's team found pollen from the Gundelia tournefortii thistle, which some Christians believe is the ``crown of thorns. ...
• Those pollens also supported a link between the shroud and the Sudarium of Oviedo, believed by some to be the burial face cloth of Jesus. ...
• A separate study published in 1983 showed both the face cloth and shroud were stained with type AB blood. ...
• Eight early methods found that the stains on the cloth were blood, and forensic scientists say the three-dimensional image belonged to a man age 30 to 35. ...
• It could not be Christ's burial cloth, the researchers concluded.
• But shroud supporters say the cloth sample came from the edge of the shroud, which may have been damaged by a fire in 1532 and rewoven. ...
• Most of the flower images were around the image's head, and the positioning follows ancient Jewish burial practices. ...

• The cloth is fourteen feet long. It is a huge piece of cloth to have survived intact for thirteen centuries before coming to light. ...
• However, there are people who still claim that this was the cloth Jesus had been buried in, so Nickell devotes the rest of the book to investigating whether the cloth contained the body of Christ. ...
• In chapter three, Nickell explains that the cloth, if genuine, shows that Jesus could not have been buried in the traditional Jewish way as John 19:40 states. ... The corpse would also have been washed, yet the cloth is supposed to show blood stains. ...
• He shows that many images of Christ were very like the image on the Shroud and that it would be quite natural for an artist to produce such an image. ...
• If the image on the cloth was formed by the cloth being wrapped around the face, then we would expect gross distortion of the image when the cloth was removed and smoothed out. ...
• How could the cloth focus the rays into an image the way that a camera would? What would act as a lens? .
• This was already known in the fourteenth century of course, but such is the power of belief that some people continue to think the Shroud is the burial cloth of Christ, miraculously preserved for two thousand years. ...

• “According to an ancient legend, one of the disciples healed the leprosy of King Agbar of Edessa in southern Turkey by letting him touch Christ's burial cloth, and the cloth remained in the possession of Agbar, who was the first pagan ruler to be converted to Christianity. ...
• “But what was this precious object? Apparently it was some sort of image of Christ's face imprinted on a piece of cloth, and there can be no doubt about its influence on religious art after its discovery in the city wall of Edessa. ...
• “One problem is that the Mandylion is reputed to have borne only the face of Christ, not his entire body. ... Could Geoffrey's family have been the very people who put the Mandylion on display in 1357 as the burial shroud of Christ? At least, it is a plausible explanation of the sudden appearance of this relic after a lapse of many centuries. ...
• On the Liturgical Use of the Epitaphios (Burial Shroud).

• John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, a fireproof box contains a burial shroud wrapped in red velvet. The cloth contains a negative image of a crucified man, frighteningly accurate in its detail. Some people believe that this is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, while others regard it as a clever hoax. ...
• - According to a clutch of early writers, the cloth that Christ's body was wrapped in after crucifixion was sent to the town of Edessa, present day Urfa in eastern Turkey. In Edessa, the cloth was reportedly instrumental in converting the city's king, Abgar, to Christianity. ...
• stretched his whole body on a cloth, white as snow, on which the glorious image of the Lord's face and the length of his whole body was so divinely transformed that it was sufficient for those who could not see the Lord bodily in the flesh to see the transfiguration made on the cloth. ...
• - Hungarian Prayer Manuscripts were illustrated with drawings of a naked figure of Christ, being folded into the burial cloth in the manner that mimics the figure in the Shroud of Turin. ...
• - A written account of the full burial shroud was given by a Greek, Nicholas Mesarites, who was the Keeper of the emperor's relic collection in the Pharos chapel of Boucoleon Palace in Constantinople. He wrote, "In this chapel Christ rises again, and the sindon with the burial linens is the clear proof. ...
• - Pope Sixtus IV writes that the shroud was "coloured with the blood of Christ. ...
• There is only one way that this kind of chemistry could appear on the cloth. This cloth had to be in contact with the body of a severely beaten human male. ...
• - Studies on pollen samples that were previously taken from the Shroud supported the source and time of the resurrection of Christ. ...

• For hundreds of years, there has been much speculation concerning the actual age of the cloth and whether it coincided with historical and biblical accounts. Scholars, religious bodies, historians and sindonologists (linen experts) concentrated on the Jewish burial of Jesus and early representations of Christ in an attempt to gain further insight. ...
• One of the main arguments made by skeptics concerning the Turin Shroud's alleged "holiness" is that there is no mention of its existence, or at least the existence of one with the image of Christ, in the entirety of the New Testament. ...
• "   Skeptics refer to the Bible when they refute the authenticity of the shroud because it is clearly stated that Jesus was wrapped in "clothes" in the plural not a cloth as the shroud depicts, being that an entire image is represented. Moreover, it is suggested that spices were used in preparing Jesus for burial, yet there was no evidence of spices on the Shroud of Turin during analysis in the latter part of the 20th century. ...
• However, according to an article by Orthodox America titled The Shroud of Turin: A Mystery Across the Ages, it could have been that "the Turin Shroud was merely a preliminary burial cloth to be replaced when full absolutions and anointings could be completed. " Furthermore, the article suggested that because Jesus was prepared for burial in great haste there is even more likelihood that the "preliminary burial cloth" was used, at least until proper burial rites could have been observed, which involved the traditional use of a separate face cloth and body cloth. ...
• Another point brought forth by shroud advocates is that the weave of the cloth indicated the shroud was undoubtedly from the Middle East. ... Yet, skeptics claim that there is no precise way to determine in what exact region the cloth came from. Therefore, although the cloth could have originated in Jerusalem, it is just as likely that it came from some other Middle Eastern country. ... If that were the case, it would explain why there had been no mention of a shroud with the image of Christ before that time.
• If the shroud is from a later date, the entire theory of it being the burial cloth of Jesus must be entirely dismissed. There are those who believe that the mere image represented on the cloth is testimony to it having been produced centuries after the crucifixion of Christ. ... Nickell further supported this theory when he stated that the depiction of Christ on the shroud was, "merely characteristic of medieval Gothic art" and quite unlike the earliest known representations of him from the third century, which depicted Christ as " young, beardless and with cropped hair. ...

• Carbon dating of the body and its burial shroud indicated death had occurred 1990 +-95 years ago. ...
• A senior archeologist, asked if this was the body of Jesus Christ, refused to comment, but agreed that "the evidence is not inconsistent with that hypothesis. " A younger archeologist, who requested anonymity, said "This is the corpse of Christ. ...
• A Vatican spokesman said that such a discovery was impossible, because they had the true burial cloth of Christ, the Shroud of Turin. ...

• Whether Christ was buried in a becoming manner?.
• It would seem that Christ was buried in an unbecoming manner. For His burial should be in keeping with His death. But Christ underwent a most shameful death, according to Wis. ... " It seems therefore unbecoming for honorable burial to be accorded to Christ, inasmuch as He was buried by men of position--namely, by Joseph of Arimathea, who was "a noble counselor," to use Mark's expression (Mk. ...
• Further, nothing should be done to Christ which might set an example of wastefulness. But it seems to savor of waste that in order to bury Christ Nicodemus came "bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes about a hundred pounds weight," as recorded by John (19:39), especially since a woman came beforehand to anoint His body for the burial, as Mark relates (Mk. ... Consequently, this was not done becomingly with regard to Christ. ...
• But Christ's burial on the one hand was simple, because "Joseph wrapped His body in a clean linen cloth," as is related by Matthew (27:59), "but not with gold or gems, or silk," as Jerome observes: yet on the other hand there appears to have been some display, inasmuch as they buried Him with fragrant spices (John 19:40). Consequently, the manner of Christ's burial does not seem to have been seemly. ...
• Further, "What things soever were written," especially of Christ, "were written for our learning," according to Rm. ... But some of the things written in the Gospels touching Christ's burial in no wise seem to pertain to our instruction--as that He was buried "in a garden. ... " Therefore the manner of Christ's burial was not becoming. ...
• I answer that, The manner of Christ's burial is shown to be seemly in three respects. ... Secondly, to commend the devotion of those who gave Him burial. ... " Thirdly, as to the mystery whereby those are molded who "are buried together with Christ into death" (Rm. ...

• VATICAN (CWN) -- A new scientific study of the Shroud of Turin has dated the cloth to the year 29 or 30 AD, contradicting the results of an earlier study which gained worldwide attention. ...
• In 1988, a Carbon-14 test-which was heavily criticized because of breaches of standard scientific protocol-suggested that the cloth of the Shroud dated from somewhere between 1260 and 1390. Although that study did not explain the mysterious image on the Shroud, it did seem to indicate that the Shroud could not be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. ...
• But the two professors from Turin optimistically insist that the probability is now "nearly 100 percent" that this is the burial cloth of Christ. ...

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