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• Message of Pope Paul IV for the Exposition of the Shroud 1978.
• This event is indeed the public exposition of the Holy Shroud, that, with jealous affection and vivid piety, is kept in the Cathedral and also in the heart of Torino’s Chrisatians, as an honorable Relic of the blessed Passion of Jesus Christ, our Lord. ...
• ) comes back to Christians’ attention: although He resurrected from death on the third day, He did not erase but glorified His wounds, and He showed the signs to those who, as Thomas (John, 20; 24:29) were tempted by defying visions of total death or dehumanizing transfiguration.
• It is for this reason that even facing the mysterious Image of the Shroud, we’d love to repeat the invitation of the apostle: "let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace to help in time of need" (Jews 4; 16).
• I hope the exposition of the Shroud will really help everybody to rediscover the great fecundity .
• Pastoral Route - The Shroud in the life of the Church - Documents - Message for the parish churches - Home page .

• ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II .
• With my gaze turned to the Shroud, I would like to extend a cordial greeting to you all, the faithful of the Church of Turin. ...
• In the light of Christ's presence in our midst, I then stopped before the Shroud, the precious Linen that can help us better to understand the mystery of the love of God's Son for us. Before the Shroud, the intense and agonizing image of an unspeakable torment, I wish to thank the Lord for this unique gift, which asks for the believer's loving attention and complete willingness to follow the Lord.
• The Shroud is a challenge to our intelligence. ... The mysterious fascination of the Shroud forces questions to be raised about the sacred Linen and the historical life of Jesus. ... The Church urges that the Shroud be studied without pre-established positions that take for granted results that are not such; she invites them to act with interior freedom and attentive respect for both scientific methodology and the sensibilities of believers.
• For the believer, what counts above all is that the Shroud is a mirror of the Gospel. ... Whoever approaches it is also aware that the Shroud does not hold people's hearts to itself, but turns them to him, at whose service the Father's loving providence has put it. ... The Shroud is thus a truly unique sign that points to Jesus, the true Word of the Father, and invites us to pattern our lives on the life of the One who gave himself for us.
• The image of human suffering is reflected in the Shroud. ... Before the Shroud, how can we not think of the millions of people who die of hunger, of the horrors committed in the many wars that soak nations in blood, of the brutal exploitation of women and children, of the millions of human beings who live in hardship and humiliation on the edges of great cities, especially in developing countries? How can we not recall with dismay and pity those who do not enjoy basic civil rights, the victims of torture and terrorism, the slaves of criminal organizations? By calling to mind these tragic situations, the Shroud not only spurs us to abandon our selfishness but leads us to discover the mystery of suffering, which, sanctified by Christ's sacrifice, achieves salvation for all humanity. ...
• The Shroud is also an image of God's love as well as of human sin. ...
• As it speaks to us of love and sin, the Shroud invites us all to impress upon our spirit the face of God's love, to remove from it the tremendous reality of sin. ... Echoing the word of God and centuries of Christian consciousness, the Shroud whispers: believe in God's love, the greatest treasure given to humanity, and flee from sin, the greatest misfortune in history.
• The Shroud is also an image of powerlessness: the powerlessness of death, in which the ultimate consequence of the mystery of the Incarnation is revealed. ...

• Turin Shroud Books & Videos.
• The Second Messiah : Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonryby Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas .
• The authors, Freemasons, support the 1988 carbon dating results showing the shroud could not pre-date 1260. ... The authors identify precisely where and when the shroud came into existence and to name the people involved. ... In solving the riddle of the shroud this book unravels a far deeper mystery: how this medieval artifact links directly to Jesus.
• The Shroud of Turin and the C-14 Dating Fiasco.
• 50 Details Russian tests showing probability that the Shroud is close to 2000 years old and that the blood on the Shroud is real blood. ... John Heller and Alan Adler, the scientists who did the chemical work on the famous relic for the Shroud of Turin Research Project. ... John Heller before his death. ...
• Relic, Icon or Hoax? : Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud.
• Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud    by Gilbert R. ...
• who has pursued a medical and scriptural study of the Shroud of Turin over the past 20 years. ...
• many will conclude this fascinating book asking honestly, 'Who was that man?'', John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York. ...
• The Shroud of Turin; An Adventure of Discovery.
• Discussion of various objects conforming to the archaeological record which point to the fact that the Shroud of Turin is authentic. ...
• Inquest on the Shroud of Turin : Latest Scientific Findings.

• Thousands plan visits to shroud.
• Rare display of sacred linen expected to draw Americans to Turin .
• SchwortzThe Shroud of Turin, which shows the faint outline of a bearded man, as it appears on a photographic negative.
• By Thomas Harbrove / Scripps Howard News Service     TURIN, Italy -- Thousands of Americans are planning pilgrimages to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin this summer for a rare viewing of a 14-foot-long linen cloth that the Vatican describes as a mystery. ...
•    The Shroud of Turin -- which shows a faint image of a bearded man with wounds consistent with Gospel accounts of the scourging and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth -- will be on public display from Aug. ...
•    "I'm afraid the shroud might not be viewed again until the year 2033. ... Louis attorney and shroud aficionado Mark Antonacci. "I take the position that not only is the shroud authentic, but I can account for how the shroud was created and for every image found on it. ...
•    The public viewing will be accompanied by publication of a new wave of books about the shroud, including Antonacci's The Resurrection of the Shroud due out in June. ...
•    "The more I study this, the less likely I think it was produced by someone in the Middle Ages," said Los Angeles professional photographer Barrie Schwortz, who was part of the 1978 scientific team to study the shroud. ... But my belief is that we can never prove who the picture of the man on the shroud is. ...
•    Schwortz will soon publish Turin Shroud: the Illustrated Evidence, which he calls a coffee-table book offering more than 200 photographs of the cloth and its impact on people who study it. ...
•    "The shroud is too accurate to be a painting and it can't be a photograph," said Schwortz, who is Jewish. ...
•    The shroud was publicly displayed in 1933 as a celebration of the 1,900th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus. ...
•    The shroud was next displayed in 1978, when it was examined by a scientific team that took samples of the cloth. Results of a carbon-14 dating test of the sample was released in 1988 suggesting the shroud dated no later than a period from 1260 to 1390 A. ... The accuracy of the finding has been challenged by dozens of other technicians and amateur shroud investigators. ...

• New 'evidence' in Turin Shroud mystery .
• The argument over the authenticity of the Turin Shroud has taken a new twist after researchers say they may have found fresh evidence that the cloth bears the face of Christ. ...
• Rex Morgan, an author on books on the Shroud, said he believed there was sufficient evidence to date the portrait to the first century. ...
• "This painting looked to me to be very much the same features of the man on the Shroud of Turin," said Mr Morgan. ...
• Mr Morgan suggested that St Mark may have commissioned the portrait but he added that it could not conclusively prove the image on the shroud is that of Christ. ...
• "What it does, is adds another link into the very many pieces of evidence which suggests that the Shroud of Turin is a 2,000 year old item. ...
• "You are never going to prove it's the shroud of Christ, but it's another link in this extraordinarily mysterious chain of evidence. ...
• Scientific tests have cast doubt on the age of the Turin Shroud, indicating it might date from the Middle Ages. ...
• More intriguing still, computer analysis indicates the shroud has unusual three-dimensional properties and scientists have also found traces of pollens from the Middle East. ...
• The shroud recently went back on view at Turin Cathedral and thousands made a pilgrimage to the city to see the relic. ...
• Speaking during his visit, Pope John Paul II called on scientists to keep an open mind about the shroud.
• Pope's 'open mind' on Turin shroud.
• Turin Shroud: Back in the public gaze.
• Turin Shroud goes on view.
• A shroud of doubt.
• Turin Cathedral: The Shroud.

• Pollen, plant traces bolster case for Shroud of Turin.
• Shroud of Turin support the premise that it originated in.
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• The shroud was brought to France by a 14th-century crusader.
• and has been enshrined since 1578 in a cathedral in Turin,.
• In 1988, scientists tested scraps of the shroud with Vatican.
• refused to discuss the authenticity of the shroud itself.
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• Two other plants whose images were found on the shroud were.
• Traces of pollen grains taken from the shroud are from.
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• holy relic, but the cloth has attracted pilgrims to Turin.
• Pope John Paul II, who knelt in.
• The shroud went on display in a bulletproof case for several.

• Pope Salutes Shroud as Exposition Opens .
• com) -- At his Sunday Angelus audience on August 13, Pope John Paul II (bio - news) called attention to the Shroud of Turin, which is being exposed for public viewing during the Jubilee year. ...
• Speaking at his summer residence in Castel Gandalfo, to a youthful crowd dominated by pilgrims who were arriving in Rome for World Youth Day, the Holy Father said that he had been profoundly moved by each of his three personal encounters the Shroud. ...
• The Pope first saw the Shroud on a visit to Turin in 1978, just weeks before his election to Peter's throne. He has visited the Turin cathedral during public expositions of the Shroud in 1980 and again in 1998. ... "Through the Man of the Shroud, the infinite love of God speaks to the heart of every man. ...
• The Shroud has been made available for public viewing this year just before the opening of World Youth Day activities, and the Pontiff observed that many young pilgrims are passing through Turin as an "introduction" to the week's observances. ...
• Already some 11,000 people have seen the Shroud since the exposition began August 12. ... Access to the Shroud is free, although pilgrims are required to make reservations-- a step the organizers have introduced to control the flow of traffic in the cathedral.

• The Turin Shroud.
• People have tried to trace the shroud as far back in time as they can to prove that it was the material wrapped around Jesus when he was taken down from the cross. ...
• The shroud now preserved at Turin, is claimed to be the actual "clean linen cloth" in which Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus (Matthew 27:59). ... If the marks we perceive were caused by human body, it is clear that the body (supine) was laid lengthwise along one half of the shroud while the other half was doubled back over the head to cover the whole front of the body from the face to the feet. The arrangement is well illustrated in the miniature of Giulio Clovio, which also gives a good representation of what was seen upon the shroud about the year 1540. ...
• The cloth now at Turin can be traced back to the Lirey in the Diocese of Troyes, this is when we first hear of it about in 1360. ... Since 1578 it has remained at Turin Cathedral. ...
• The authenticity of the Shroud of Turin was taken for granted, through various pronouncements of the Pope. An Office and Mass "de Sancta Sindone" was formerly approved by Julius II in the Bull "Romanus Pontifex" of 25 April, 1506, in whih the Pope speaks of "that most famous Shroud (proeclarissima sindone) in which our Savior was wrapped when he lay in the tomb and which is now honorably and devoutly preserved in a silver casket. ... Composed by his predecessor, Sixtus IV, in which Sixtus states that in the Shroud "men may look upon the true blood and portrait of Jesus Christ himself. " A certain difficulty was caused by the existence elsewhere of other Shrouds similarly impressed with the figure of Jesus Christ and some of these cloths, notably those of Besançon, Cadouin, Champiègne, Xabregas,  also claimed to be the authentic linen provided by Joseph of Arimathea, but until the close of the last century no great attack was made upon the genuineness of the Turin relic. In 1898 when the Shroud was solemnly exposed, permission was given to photograph it and a sensation was caused by the discovery that the image upon the linen was apparently a negative -- in other words that the photographic negative taken from this offered a more recognizable picture of a human face than the cloth itself or any positive print. ... Paul Vignon read a remarkable paper before the Académie des Sciences in which he maintained that the impression upon the Shroud was a "vaporigraph" caused by the ammoniacal emanations radiating from the surface of Christ's body after so violent a death. ... The image upon the Shroud was therefore a natural negative and as such completely beyond the comprehension or the skill of any medieval forger. ...
• Yet others have tried to show that the shroud can be traced further back in history, what do you think??. ...
•   So the apostles decided to send instead the apostle Jude with the Holy Shroud. ...

• The Shroud of Turin's .
• Shroud of Turin Survives Suspicious Fire .
• A fire in downtown Turin, Italy, tore through the San Giovanni Renaissance cathedral, which has served as home for the legendary Shroud of Turin since 1578. ...
• But incredibly, firefighters were able to rescue the Shroud from the flames without so much as a singe. ...
• Fireman Mario Trematore is responsible for saving the Shroud, having risked his life to charge through the 15th century cathedral's interior as the fire raged. He had to reach the black marble chapel of the Holy Shroud at the back of San Giovanni, where the cloth has long been enshrined inside a large reliquary made of silver and glass. Tight security measures meant to protect the icon now became a severe obstacle, as Trematore had to smash through eight layers of bulletproof glass with a sledgehammer to reach the Shroud's container. ...
• Even though the Roman Catholic Church has never recognized the cloth as a true holy relic, the Vatican owns the Shroud of Turin and treats it with reverence.
• "A miracle," Pope John Paul II commented of the Shroud's rescue. ...
• As the Pope suggests, fire has threatened the Shroud several times before. ... This incident has become a key factor in the ongoing debate over the Shroud's true age. ...
• Shroud scholar Vittorio Messori is convinced this was no accident.
• In fact the Internet is full of the sick fantasies of people who want to destroy the Shroud. ...
• Turin's fire brigade received an anonymous phone call warning of a "fire in the city" half and hour before the San Giovanni blaze. ...
• as well as the Shroud of Turin. ...
• It seems an unusually egregious lapse in security for the San Giovanni cathedral's staff, which has been known for its stringent protectiveness for the Shroud of Turin's welfare.

• Message of Pope Paul VI for the first TV broadcasting of the exposition of the Holy Shroud .
• On 23 November 1973 for the first time in history the exposition of the Shroud was broadcast live on Channel one. To our venerated brother Cardinal Michele Pellegrino, Archbishop of Turin, and to all the Churches entrusted to his pastoral ministry, in full communion with us. ...
• We feel as if we were there, and the eyes of our spirit were staring with careful and devoted veneration at the Holy Shroud, that is now displayed in Torino, guardian city of such a special Object.
• We personally remember the living impression that caught our soul when on May 1931 we were lucky to attend a wide screen projection of the image of the Holy Shroud, on a special tribute to it. ...
• " (John; 14-9).
• Should we give up and yield to the traditional statements of Saint Augustin and Saint Ireneus, who said we can not know anything about the human appearances of Jesus? We are then very lucky if this surviving effigy of Christ, the Holy Shroud, let us contemplate some authentic lines .
• Torino is glorious and devoted to the Holy Shroud, the city was able to welcome its revealing voice. ...
• Pastoral Route - The Shroud in the life of the Church - Documents - Message for the parish churches - Home page .

• Science And The Shroud .
• And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
• Then the case will be hung horizontally at the intersection of the Turin Cathedral's nave and transept, near the center of the cathedral's built-in cross. ...
• The Roman Catholic hierarchy in this northwestern Italian city, renowned for its auto industry--and, well, for this--estimates that 3 million people will line up in the next eight weeks to view what has come to be known as the Shroud of Turin, on public display for the first time in 20 years. ... The Pope will arrive on May 24 to venerate the relic. ... But the majority will make the pilgrimage to the Shroud of Turin in order to attain grace in the presence of clothing Jesus left behind when he arose on the third day. ...
• In 1988, just as scientific testing and historical scholarship had convinced ever greater numbers of intelligent people that the shroud might indeed be Jesus' burial cloth, its keepers elected to allow one more test. ... One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote, "It seemed that anyone who had previously upheld any serious case for the shroud's credibility. ...
• Counterintuitive as it may seem in an age when technology has either trumped belief or become its new focus, a fascination with the shroud seems to have not only survived but also flourished. It can be tracked on the World Wide Web, from the official archdiocese site to the home page of the Turin fire brigade (which saved the relic during a fire last April). It can be discussed at the Centre International d'Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin in Paris, the Collegamento pro Sindone in Rome (sindon is the Latin word for shroud), Valencia's Centro Espanol de Sindonologia or with the members of variously titled organizations in England and the U. ... " It finds its adherents among everyday Catholics and among the exalted as well: during an in-flight press conference in 1989 on his way to Madagascar, when asked if he believed the shroud to be genuine, John Paul II replied, "I think it is. ...
• On Website after Website, in book after much hyped book and in the Turin Cathedral this week, an act of rebellion is under way. ...
• To be sure, not even the most avid defender of radiocarbon dating would deny that at least one mystery continues to surround the shroud: How did the image of a man, plainly crucified and preternaturally finely rendered, get on it in the first place? Were the image not allegedly Christ's, the matter would be relegated to obscure academic journals on Byzantine textile technology. ...

• Pope John Paul II.
• Pope John Paul II. ...
• Election as Pope, October 16, 1978.
• Life as Pope. ...
• Pope Shot!. ... Gallery    John Paul II Gallery.
•     The Pope and Religions   The Pope and Communism.
• John Paul II - Pope Number 264. ...
•     Karol Józef Wojtyła, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in Wadowice (Poland). ...
•     John Paul II has been credited with helping to bring down communism in eastern Europe by sparking what amounted to a peaceful revolution in his Polish homeland; seeking to heal divisions between Christians and Jews and Muslims and all religions; and working tirelessly for peace in the world, most recently in Iraq.
•     The 83-year-old pope suffers from Parkinson’s disease since January 2001. His 25th anniversary as Pope, in 2003, highlighted John Paul’s role as one of the most influential religious figures of the last century as he reached a milestone matched by only three of his predecessors.
•     John Paul is the most-traveled Pope ever, visiting 129 different countries in 102 foreign trips. ...
• The Pope has also published three books : "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" (October 1994); "Gift and Mystery: On the 50th Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination" (November 1996) and "Roman Tryptych - Meditations", a book of poems (March 2003).
•     John Paul II also ushered the Vatican into the media age, becoming something of a superstar and drawing cheering crowds wherever he went, particularly among the young. ...
•     "He is truly the global pope," said Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, Austria and a man mentioned as a possible successor to John Paul II. ...

• If we are to accept the evidence concerning the Shroud, and thousands do, we should recognize that it is science and history confronting and challenging the prevailing worldview that unnatural things don't happen. ...
• Shroud of Turin.
• SHROUD STORY HOME PAGE.
• If we are to accept the evidence concerning the Shroud, and thousands do, we should recognize that it is science and history confronting and challenging the prevailing worldview that unnatural things don't happen. ...
• The Shroud is important because it challenges what we may believe about the resurrection. ... And as Pope John Paul II states - a man keenly aware of intellectual dilemma - the Shroud of Turin "challenges our intelligence. ...
• To ignore the Shroud, once given the opportunity to comprehend it, seems wrong. Admittedly, it is difficult to approach a study of the Shroud free of our religious (including anti-religious), scientific and cultural biases. ... Whether we believe that the Shroud is real or not, understanding it exposes us to think anew - and in new ways - about the passion story, the crucifixion and the resurrection.
• If in the recognition of the face and hands and feet and all the other wounds on the Shroud , we, like those who knew Him best, are led to say, "It is the Lord!", then perhaps we may have to learn to count ourselves also among those who have "seen and believed. ... John makes clear, brings with it no special blessing - rather special responsibility. ... John A. ...
• Thomas Cahill in Desires of the Everlasting Hill illustrates this thinking as he describes what can be seen on the Shroud. ... The Shroud image, however it was made, is a genuine negative. ... But if we assume that the Shroud is a clever medieval forgery, we must assume that it was made by an artist whose grasp of the negative-positive properties of photography was five centuries in advance of his time and whose understanding of anatomy was far in advance of that of all medieval contemporaries. ... Every artist, especially one as facile as the Shroud artist would have had to have been, is identifiable by his style, which is as characteristic of him as his signature or thumbprint. ... Before his crucifixion, the man on the Shroud was stripped naked and scourged over his whole body, the scourge marks especially visible on chest and back. ...

• The Shroud of Turin.
• And a linen cloth is what the Catholic Church has now in custody and many faithful enshrine as the shroud used to wrap Christ. ... We think, therefore, that so inappropriate is to use the Shroud of Turin to attack Christianity as to use it as a Crusade weapon in its defence. One could be a very good Christian without accepting the authenticity of the Shroud.
• To start, a brief analysis of the history of the Shroud, next we will show you the data that made this object to be considered one of the most amazing mysteries and an unique object of study and finally, we will guide you into the analysis of the image on the linen. ...
• For many, the chronology of the Shroud of Turin could have started in the city of Edesa (the actual Urfa in Turkey) where a relic that could very well be the Shroud, was found during the reparation of a wall between 525 and 544. ... Next, we show you some of the arguments that many use to follow the history of the Shroud before 1350. We insist that there is only undisputed agreement among scholars about the history of the Shroud from 1350 on.
• In 944, the Shroud was taken from Edesa to Constantinople. ...
• A miniature from 1081 (Skylitres Miniature (1081-1118)) shows the imperator Lecapeno (920-944) kissing the Shroud when it arrived from Edesa. In the scene, the Shroud is stretched and the imperator kiss the part of the head while another person holds the cloth. ...
• It is thought that the Shroud disappeared from Constantinople during the crusades. There is a letter from the 1st of August of 1205, written by Teodoro Angel Comneno, grandson of Isaac II, imperator from Constantinople, and it is addressed to the Pope Innocent III, organizer of the IV Crusade. ... In the Centro di Sindonologia (Turin) there are letters of the Binet and Mathieu, Archbishops of Besançon, confirming the presence of the relic in the city the first days of the XIII century. ...
• Year 1355, the Shroud appears again after 1. ... From this year on we know for sure the historical trajectory of the Shroud.

• Shroud of Turin Authenticity.
• Recently, several parishes have hosted talks on the Shroud of Turin. ...
• Many of the faithful sincerely believe that the Shroud of Turin is the actual burial cloth of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Without declaring its authenticity, Pope John Paul II has clearly attested to the value of the Shroud. For instance, in 1980, the Holy Father stated, "The Holy Shroud, the most splendid relic of the passion and the resurrection. " Almost ten years later, in April 1989, he was asked by reporters during an in-flight press conference on the way to Madagascar about the Shroud, and he responded, "At certainly is a relic. " Again, almost ten years later, when asked if the Shroud was genuine, the Pope said, AI think it is. ... The Holy Father has visited the Shroud both in 1978 and most recently this past June 1998.
• His predecessors have also viewed the Shroud favorably. Pope Pius XII stated, AA precious treasure, the Holy Shroud, which displays, both to move and comfort us, the image of the lifeless body and tortured face of Christ. " And Pope John XXIII declared, "Digits Dei est hic" ("The finger of God is here. ...
• However, to believe that the Shroud is the actual burial cloth of the Lord is not a matter of faith. ... As Cardinal Saldarini of Turin stated, "It’s not Christ, but something that brings us back to him. Salvation is not in the Shroud, even if it truly wrapped the martyred body of Jesus, even if it was mysteriously given by God to His Church. ...
• Nevertheless, the Church has been the official guardian of the Shroud for the House of Savoy, the former ruling family of Italy. In 1983, the Savoy family willed the Shroud to the Holy Father with the Archbishop of Turin serving as the Pontifical Guardian for the Conservation and Veneration of the Holy Shroud.

• The Holy Shroud of Turin.
• There has been a lot of controversy about the shroud.
• The following pictures are enhancements of the shroud. ...
• I do believe to think that the Shroud of Turin is real and that it is much older than what we have been told.
• The face of one mummy in particular looks a lot like the face on this shroud.
• A kind of flower has been detected on both the Shroud and the face cloth. ...
• Key facts about Turin Shroud.
• TURIN, May 24 (Reuters) - Pope John Paul on Sunday prayed before the Turin Shroud, an ancient linen sheet revered by some Christians as the burial cloth that wrapped Christ's body after his crucifixion. ...
• WHAT IS IT? The Turin Shroud is a fragile, yellowing linen cloth measuring 4. ...
• WHY IS IT CALLED THE TURIN SHROUD? The Shroud, which some Christians believe is nearly 2,000 years old, is believed to have been brought to France from the Middle East during the five crusades in around 1356. ...
• The House of Savoy, Italy's former royal family, took it to its seat in the northwest city of Turin in 1578 and ex-king Umberto II bequeathed it to Pope John Paul in 1983. ...
• WHERE IS IT KEPT? The Turin Shroud is kept in a silver casket that was housed in the Guarini Chapel of Turin's cathedral, or Duomo, and later behind the high altar. ...
• This is only the fourth time this century the Shroud has gone on show to the public. ...
• It was displayed in 1931 and 1933, and some three million people saw it when it was last brought out in 1978 to mark the 400th anniversary of its arrival in Turin. ...
• WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?: The first thing anyone looking at the Shroud sees are triangular patches added after a fire in 1532, water marks and stains. ...
• IS IT GENUINE? The most controversial analysis of the Shroud's authenticity was carried out in 1988 when scientists in Oxford, Zurich and Tucson, Arizona, conducted carbon-dating tests. ...

• Shroud of Turin returns to Italian cathedral damaged by fire.
•    TURIN, Italy - The famed shroud of Turin has returned to the San Giovanni Cathedral after escaping a devastating fire last year, and will go on public display for the first time in 20 years.
•    A convent on the outskirts of Turin had housed the shroud - which escaped the fire undamaged - until its glorious return Wednesday to San Giovanni. ...
•    The shroud was rescued by a fireman who smashed through four layers of bulletproof glass protecting the sacred cloth in its silver casing.
•    At a special ceremony Saturday afternoon, church dignitaries, archbishops and VIPs will be the first to view the shroud that many believe was Jesus Christ's burial cloth. It will be unveiled during a nationally televised ceremony at Turin's cathedral.
•    The 14-foot-long, 3 1/2-foot-wide shroud was unfurled Wednesday during a solemn homecoming ceremony presided over by the archbishop of Turin.
•    The shroud's pulling power is still strong two decades after its last public viewing.
• Because of the huge demand, visitors will be allowed only two minutes each to look at the shroud, the reports said.
•    Starting Sunday through June 14, the shroud will be on display each day from 7:30 a. ...
•    Pope John Paul II, who was still bishop of Krakow, Poland, when he journeyed here to see the shroud in 1978, will visit the cathedral on May 24, when a special kneeler will be set up for him to linger in prayer. ...
•    The other approximately 2 million people expected to visit the display will have only two minutes to pause before the shroud as they pass by on three raised walkways during viewing hours.
•    The upcoming display already has spurred a rash of books, CD-ROMs and TV documentaries highlighting the shroud's mystery.
•    "The relic which lives," the Turin daily La Stampa wrote Friday in trying to explain the shroud's popular appeal despite 1988 carbon-dating tests, authorized by the pope, that indicated the cloth dated back to between 1260 and 1390.

• The Shroud of Turin.
• No single Christian artifact is more challenging to skeptics than the Shroud of Turin: Once dismissed as a particularly adept medieval forgery, in recent years it has been gaining even more scientific support that it is precisely what tradition has always claimed it is – the burial cloth that for 30 hours was wound about the recumbent body of the crucified Jesus.
• In 1988, the shroud’s credibility suffered a setback after three separate carbon-dating tests placed the origin of its linen fibers no earlier than the 13th century AD, about the time it received what has long been assumed to be its first documented references in western Europe. But at a congress in May in Vienna, scientific researchers detailed solid scientific reasons why carbon dating might never work with the shroud.
• Meanwhile, an increasing amount of research unrelated to carbon dating continues to point to a first-century Palestinian origin for the shroud’s material. ...
• Turin University pathologist Dr. Pieluigi Baima Bollone added that close examination of the cloth revealed images of two coins from the time of Pontius Pilate on the shroud, a further indication the image predated the Middle Ages.
• But perhaps the most significant material presented in Vienna came from Piero Savarino, professor of industrial organic chemistry at the University of Turin. In an interview with the Register, Savarino pointed out that the human image on the shroud rests on the outer fibers of the linen weave, in a layer thinner than a human hair. ...
• And while those pyrols can be found in abundance in the parts of the shroud scorched by the various cathedral fires it has suffered through the centuries, none are connected to the image itself.
• Alan Whanger, professor emeritus of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and Director of the Council for study of the Shroud of Turin. "His body would have given off massive amounts of radiation as it dematerialized and passed through the Shroud, leaving a kind of negative photograph with an X-ray component relating to the bones resting near the material. ...
• Whanger noted that Canadian physicist Thaddeus Trenn, director of the science and religion program at the University of Toronto, has hypothesized that an influx of energy overcame the strong force that bound together the protons and neutrons in the body of the man lying in the Shroud. ... Moreover, Trenn has pointed out, the dematerialization theory is supported by distortions in the Shroud image that indicate that it was collapsing in upon itself at the precise moment the image was being produced. ...
• That could explain why attempts at carbon-14 dating have failed to support the Shroud’s authenticity. "I don’t think they’ll ever get the carbon dating to line up with the rest of what we know about the shroud," Whanger said.

• Pope to join pilgrims, venerate Shroud of Turin .
• VATICAN (CWN) -- The Shroud of Turin will be exposed for public veneration from April 18 to June 14 of this year, as a part of the preparations for the Jubilee Year. Pope John Paul II (bio - news) has announced his intention to travel to Turin to venerate the Shroud on May 24. ...
• The Shroud escaped damage when a fire ripped through the Turin cathedral on April 11, 1997, thanks to the work of a fireman who broke into a glass case and carried out the silver reliquary in which the Shroud is housed. Since there is some suspicion that the fire in the cathedral was deliberately set, the Shroud has been removed to a secret location since that incident. ...
• The city of Turin is bracing for a huge influx of visitors during the weeks then the Shroud will be displayed. Pilgrims and tourists will be able to see the Shroud from 7:30 am to 7 pm during those weeks. A second period of public display for the Shroud is planned for the year 2000 itself. ...

• The Shroud of Turin Enigma.
• This spring huge crowds clamored to Turin, Italy to see a rare public exhibition of the most controversial church relic known in Christendom, the Shroud of Turin. ... In 1532, a fire broke out in the church where the Shroud was kept in a silver reliquary. The heat of the fire caused one side of the reliquary to melt and molten silver fell upon one of the corners of the folded Shroud charring it somewhat. The repair work was entrusted to local Poor Clare nuns who carefully removed the burned portion of the Shroud and sewed new pieces of linen in their place. ... (The Shroud was also rescued from a fire in the chapel in 1997--this time suffering no damage).
• In 1898 an amateur photographer, Seconda Pia, took the first photographs of the Shroud causing a wave of new excitement because many of the features on the shroud were much clearer in the photographic negative than in the positive prints (see below). ...
• The Shroud has been in Turin, Italy since 1578. ... In the same year a team of reputable international scientists, STURP, (2) began intensively studying the Shroud (spending eventually over $5M). ... These studies, along with various others, combine to make the Shroud of Turin the most intensively studied single object in history. The tests showed that the Shroud images are not any kind of artistic production but are the result of physical/chemical changes in the linen fibers themselves. ... The colored stains on the Shroud were thought by some to be paint pigments, but others believed them to be blood, DNA and "bioplastics. " After much pressure from STURP, church officials and Pope John Paul II allowed carbon dating of three separate small pieces of the cloth by different laboratories. ...
• Shroud researchers around the world then split into two camps: Those scientists who took the radio-carbon dates as the final word on the date, began to look for other sources for the shroud. Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince (3) built their case on the assumption that the church commissioned Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) to paint the Shroud. ... Knight and Lomas believe de Molay was crucified but did not immediately die and that the image on the Shroud of Turin is his. ...

• Turin.
• "The Shroud is a challenge to the intelligence" .
• (John Paul II).
• In just two months three million pilgrims have been to see the Holy Shroud.
• How members of CL in Turin lived the experience.
• "Come and see", Jesus had said to John and Andrew. This was also the invitation sent by the Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, the papal custodian of the Shroud, who had chosen as the title of the exhibition of 1998, the eloquent phrase, "All will see your salvation". When he visited the Shroud, the Pope didn't fail to stress the way indicated by the archbishop, "Yes", said John Paul II on 20th May in Turin, "the pilgrimage being made by numerous people to this city is truly a coming to see this tragic and enlightening sign of the Passion, that proclaims the love of the Redeemer".
• Mgr Gianni Danzi, during the mass he celebrated before the Shroud, said, "It is not easy for me to find the right balance between the need of the heart and the need of reason", immediately explaining that reason and the heart coincide with the action of "looking". "Why try immediately to translate wonder into concepts?", he answered a journalist who asked him for a comment after seeing the Shroud. For two months the community of Turin were going about their everyday work "carrying Christ with them", in the synthetic words of Mario Trematore, the fireman who saved the Shroud from the flames with the mallet that April night, while the fire was gutting the Guarini Chapel.
• We led before the Shroud men and women of all kinds, in every condition and of every conviction. A sick, old lady walking with unspeakable difficulty wanted to go up to venerate the Shroud walking, without her wheelchair. ...
• The Shroud put everyone on the same level, man, women, children, VIPs, showing how true it is that "in silence", as Sr Donata stressed, "you can have an aesthetic experience that moves you". Otherwise, how can you explain comments like that of the minister Antonio Maccanico, a declared non-believer, who, after visiting the Shroud with his wife, had this to say to the journalists, "The mystery of faith is, as it were, unveiled"? Otherwise how can you explain the wonder expressed by the Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, almost echoing Claudel, "It's a presence"? Then there are the words of our children. Simon asked, "Dad, is it really true that Jesus is not a fairytale like my friends say?" When Paul saw the Shroud he said, "Thanks Jesus, forgive me!".

• 37 church leaders Pope John Paul II elevated to the College of Cardinals .
• Avery Dulles, 82: a Jesuit theologian who has staunchly defended Pope John Paul II and his conservative teaching on morality. ... His father, John Foster Dulles, was U. ...
• Edward Egan, 68: named in May to lead the New York archdiocese, succeeding the late Cardinal John O’Connor. ...
• Severino Poletto, 67: son of Italian farmers, Poletto has led the archdiocese of Turin since June 1999. Known primarily as the custodian of the Shroud of Turin, within Italy he has been vocal in an ongoing debate about immigration. ...
• Ignace Moussa I Daoud, 70: an Eastern-rite patriarch, born in Syria, he was a surprise nomination of the pope’s in November, when he was named to head a major Vatican office, the Congregation for Eastern Churches, a post previously held by cardinals of the Latin rite.
• Walter Kasper, 67: was bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart until 1999, then went to the Vatican as a secretary of the pope’s Council for Christian Unity. ...
• José Saraiva Martins, 68: a Portuguese native and Claretian, heads the Congregation for Sainthood Causes, a busy office at the Vatican under Pope John Paul II, who has beatified 195 people and canonized 166 since Martins’ appointment.
• Giovanni Battista Re, 67: appointed by the pope in September as prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, a powerful post. He is considered close to the pope through his work as undersecretary of state and is viewed by the Italian media as a possible candidate to succeed John Paul. ... The pope wished to show his esteem for Re but didn’t want a promotion that would remove him from a job sometimes described as being like a president’s chief of staff.
• Roberto Tucci, 79: Jesuit, has earned the pope’s admiration as his advance man, helping organize trips abroad since 1982 by spending weeks or months on the road. ...

• Pollen, plant traces bolster case for Shroud of Turin.
• The Shroud of Turin.
• JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Plant imprints and pollen found on the Shroud of Turin support the premise that it originated in the Holy Land, two Israeli scientists say. ...
• "In the light of our findings, it is highly probable that the shroud did in fact come from this part of the world," said Avinoam Danin, a botany professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...
• The shroud was brought to France by a 14th-century crusader and has been enshrined since 1578 in a cathedral in Turin, Italy. ...
• In 1988, scientists tested scraps of the shroud with Vatican approval and concluded it dated back to between 1260 and 1390. ... Danin and his colleague Uri Baruch refused to discuss the authenticity of the shroud itself. ...
• The shroud also includes the images of some plants, and Danin identified one as the bean caper (Zygophyllum dumosum), which he said grows only in Israel, Jordan and Egypt's Sinai desert. ...
• Two other plants whose images were found on the shroud were the Rock Rose (Cistus creticus) which grows throughout the Middle East; and the Goundelia tournefortii tumbleweed, believed by some Christians to be the material of the crown of thorns. ...
• Traces of pollen grains taken from the shroud are from plants found in Israel and neighboring countries, including the bean caper and the tumbleweed appearing on the shroud, said Baruch, a pollen specialist at the Israel Antiquities Authority. ...
• The shroud also contains the imprint of a coin minted in the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who ruled at the time of the crucifixion. ...
• The Roman Catholic Church has never claimed the cloth as a holy relic, but the cloth has attracted pilgrims to Turin since the Middle Ages. Pope John Paul II, who knelt in silent prayer before the cloth last year, urged scientists to do more testing of the linen. ...
• The shroud went on display in a bulletproof case for several weeks last year and will go on view next in 2000, for Holy Year celebrations. ...

• The Shroud of Turin, revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, is shown in this 1979 photo. ...
• Possible on Turin Shroud .
• V A T I C A N   C I T Y, May 23 — The Roman Catholic Church could allow new tests to be carried out on the Shroud of Turin to try to solve the riddle of one of Christianity’s most enduring enigmas, the archbishop of Turin said Monday.
• , concluded in 1988 that the Shroud dated from between 1260 and 1390.
• Archbishop Poletto said he had noted divisions over the carbon dating results among the 39 scientists who attended a Shroud symposium in March.
•      The Shroud goes on display in Turin from Aug. ...
•      The Shroud, which is kept in Turin, belongs to the Vatican, and it would have to give its permission for any new testing.
•      But Poletto’s suggestion that new tests could take place was a major about-turn: His predecessor as Turin archbishop, Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, flatly ruled out allowing more tests when the Shroud last went on public display in 1998. ...
•      “Any future new tests to date the Shroud will be authorized only when the method has been clarified further,” Monsignor Giuseppe Ghiberti, one of the church’s top Shroud officials, said.
•      “Otherwise, the concerns expressed by one part of the scientific world over that dating, which could be affected by the trials and tribulations of the Shroud over the centuries and in particular the heat from fires, would affect any new tests. ...
•      The Vatican does not claim the Shroud is authentic but treasures and venerates it as a powerful reminder of Christ’s passion.
•      Pope John Paul said in 1998 after traveling to Turin to pray before the Shroud that scientists should keep seeking answers to its mystery but should keep an open mind.
•      Poletto said the Pope and Russian Patriarch Alexiy II had both been invited when the Shroud goes on display this year. The two men, whose churches are undergoing a period of strained relations, have never met but the pope dreams of visiting Moscow. ...
•      “They’ve already told me it will be very hard for the pope to come back to Turin because of his Holy Year commitments here in Rome, but the pope has surprised us with unexpected gestures, before and I haven’t lost hope,” Poletto said. ...
• Dating the Shroud of Turin.

• Pope condemns Spain terror attacks.
• Pope John Paul II has expressed his "firm and absolute condemnation" of the "abominable attacks" on Madrid trains that claimed over 190 lives and more than 1200 injuries during Thursday's morning rush hour.
• The St Vincent de Paul Society was disturbed by yesterday's Senate Inquiry findings that the gap between rich and poor is widening, and also that the scope of poverty is more than merely low income.
• Shroud of Turin undergoes secret restoration work for conservation .
• Promising a press conference and extensive documentation nextt month, Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin has confirmed conservation work on the Shroud of Turin. ...
• Workers, under the direction of a Swiss textile expert, removed 30 fabric patches that had been sewn onto the shroud in 1534 to repair fire damage. ...
• The removal of the patches -- and of a fabric backing initially attached to support the shroud -- was carried out in almost complete secrecy between late June and late July, the Archdiocese of Turin said. ...
• Many people believe the five metre cloth, which bears the image of a crucified man, is the shroud in which Christ was buried.
• The Holy Shroud - Official Site.
• The Shroud of Turin Website.

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