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• But there was a rumor that MGA restoration guru Todd Clarke, owner of Clarke Spares and Restorations, had a new-old-stock tonneau cover made of this elusive material. ...
• This precious artifact, like a swatch of fabric from the Shroud of Turin, would provide a tantalizing glipse of what an original Ice Blue top might have looked like. ...

• The study, performed when the statue of the crucified Christ in the arms of his mother was removed for restoration work, reveals the incredible details of the statue and the skill of the sculptor. ...
• Bernard Ruffin)" --> Shroud of Turin (Bernard Ruffin).
• This holy relic of the Risen Lord will again be on display in Turin this summer, for Holy Year pilgrims, and new scientific tests may be allowed. Despite some rather dubious attempts to discredit it as a fake, the more the shroud is examined, the more convincing the case becomes for its authenticity. ... Ruffin, the author of Padre Pio: the True Story, presents a detailed and up-to-date account of the history and science of the shroud. ...
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• This new study of the shroud presents the very strong case for the relic being genuine. The author weighs up the evidence for and against, with reference to many scientific studies, particularly the notorious carbon-dating test which claimed to 'prove' that the Shroud was fake. Fascinating too is the new evidence from ancient manuscripts and state-of-the-art science, and early Christian works of art that appear to have used the Shroud as a model for the face of Christ. ...

•    Restoration officials put the cost of restoration at tens of millions of dollars, and the government immediately set aside $29 million for help to Assisi overall.
• Florence set aside half of its museum income over the next two weeks to help fund the basilica restoration. ...
• In recent years, fires destroyed Venice's La Fenice opera house and heavily damaged Turin's cathedral, endangering the Shroud of Turin, and Mafia car bombs lacerated Florence's Uffizi galleries and ancient churches in Rome.
• Only then can restoration of the frescoes begin.

• " Incoming e-mail, Re: Coins on the eyes of the Shroud.
• I just wanted to comment on this issue about the Shroud of the Turin. ... Firstly, the Ten Commandments tell of how no IMAGE was to be made of God; Secondly, Isaiah 53 depicts a man who could not be recognized as a man! This person on the shroud is definetely recognizable as a man. ... The Shroud is a hoax based upon the Word of God. ...
• The Shroud of Turin now seems to be the real thing. ... God probably arranged for the Shroud to be authenticated near the time of the Pre-Trib Rapture. ...
• In "The Resurrection of the Shroud of Turin,".
• org/www1/ofm/easter/Shroud. ...
• says, "The Shroud of Turin is an ancient piece of fine linen, 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide, with the front and back images of a male who has been SCOURGED, BEATEN, CROWNED WITH THORNS, CRUCIFIED, AND PIERCED IN THE HEART in a manner consistent with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth as described in Scripture. ...
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• "Several findings of the Whangers show the origin of the Shroud images to be from Israel in the spring of AD 30. ... Max Frei, a Swiss criminalist and botanist, as being present on the Shroud from sticky tape samples that he took in 1973 and 1978. ...
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• Don Guiseppe Ghiberti, deputy head of the Turin Commission for the Display of the Shroud says the shroud not only shows the likeness of the man who was wrapped in it, it also shows marks of blood on the forearms and around the waist, with evidence of 50 blows. ...
• He had the Israelites make the cherubim on either side of the Ark, didn't he? He had to have made the image on the Shroud of Turin, because with all our modern technology, there is no way we could duplicate it. ...
• I will put some more references Re: the Shroud of Turin on Pro and Con 941. Agape A Shroud Of Mystery! .

• The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance have a page devoted to the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. ...
• The leader of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is being sought as a fugitive, and all deaths are being treated as murders. ...
• "The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God," according to one source, had boarded themselves up in their church in a rural area in Uganda, expecting to be taken to Heaven by the Virgin Mary. ...
• Police have been quoted as identifying the group as "The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God," which presumably expected the "end of the world" in the year 2000.
• More Shroud science. The International Centre for Shroud Studies is at it again, capping off a Shroud conference in Turin by announcing its findings that the image on the oh-so-holy relic is not a painting. According to its report, analyses indicated that human sweat and blood are present on the Shroud, and a process of "oxidation and dehydration" is responsible for the image. Shroudies are gearing up for August 12, when the Shroud will be displayed in Turin through mid-October. ...
• Not that Shroud again! A Church-sponsored conference in Turin has Shroudies hopeful that the Catholic Church may authorize additional carbon-14 tests on the oh-so-holy relic. ...

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• Home of the Shroud .
• Sindone is undergoing a restoration phase at the moment due to a terrible fire in 1997 that would have destroyed the famous Turin Shroud, but which was heroically saved by a fireman.
• This is one of the most important works by Guarini on the orders of Carlo Emanuele II finished in 1649 in order to house the Shroud in which the body of Christ is said to have been laid. ...

• The Rector at the time, Bishop Wright, then took the painting away for proper cleaning and restoration, and it was presented to St. ...
• The painting may have a possible connection with the Knights Templar, as it has been suggested that during the Crusades, they obtained the prized possession of the Holy Shroud, brought it back to Europe, and from it, copied their paintings. However, upon closer examination, this particular painting and its features do not match those of the Shroud of Turin, as the eyes and mouth are open. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot length of linen bearing the imprint of a full-bodied male who bears a striking likeness to a crucified man, obviously very similar to descriptions of Jesus Christ. ... , like the Shroud of Turin. Similarly, the Templecombe painting also bears only the image of a head, and not a full-bodied man, as with the Shroud of Turin.

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• It will entail monitoring the technical state of the reserve’s monuments; archaeological, historical, architectural, engineering and geological research; the identification of preservation zones; restoration, conservation, rehabilitation and repair work; the restoration and preservation of the museum items and collections; and the arrangement of the reserve’s green areas. ...

•   Jesus and the Shroud of Turin.
•     In 1898, Secondo Pia was the first man to photograph the Shroud of Turin, the burial cloth believed to have covered Christ’s body after the Crucifixion. ... The shroud had created a photographic negative of the face and body of Christ. This video examines skepticism over the shroud’s authenticity, debunking scientists who recently claimed that it could not be more than 600 years old. ...
•     On the Friday of the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus prepared the body of Jesus for burial in the garden tomb, first rubbing the body with aloe and myrrh, then wrapping it in the large burial shroud. ... Peter and John rushed to the tomb and saw only the shroud lying on the stone slab. From that time the shroud began its long journey around the Mediterranean to Turin, Italy, where it has drawn millions of pilgrims for centuries. ...
•     Gaining exclusive access to the recent investigation and restoration of the Dead Sea Scrolls, this compelling program reveals some amazing secrets about these 2000 year-old texts from the Judean desert. ...

• Those hankering for northern elegance should know that Turin is no more than an hour and a half from both Milan's city center and its airport, Malpensa, which was recently designated one of Italy's principal international gateways (despite the fact that connections to and from Milan remain inconvenient). Every street in Turin offers at least one stylish shop and an unexpected Baroque or Art Nouveau vista; the museums are excellent and varied; shops, thanks to industrial money, have been able to maintain their ornate turn-of-the-century façades and interiors; the cafés are the most spectacular in a country blessed with a café on every block; the wine and cheese, from the surrounding hills and mountains of Piedmont, are among Italy's best (and often unavailable beyond the region's borders); and the pastry and chocolates are easily the country's most refined. ... But in the luxurious, tasteful shops of Turin she would find clothes that designers actually wear. ...
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• The Shroud of Turin.
• Make sure you visit the page where you can examine the Shroud of Turin for yourself. ...
• I go to Turin as often as possible, and can't imagine tiring of it. Like Naples, my other favorite Italian city, Turin has lately been making itself dramatically more accessible, inviting, and navigable for tourists. The periodic viewings of the Shroud both jam the city (the two-month-long showing last spring, the first in twenty years, drew more than a million people) and set deadlines for renovation. ...
• Yet even as it spruces up, Turin retains the intimacy and bustle of a pre-war city. ... Turin has long been an insiders' secret. ...

• Based on the actual scientific expedition to examine the Shroud of Turin, author James BeauSeigneur creates a fictionalized story that links ancient DNA to the coming of the Antichrist. While examining the Shroud of Turin-believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ-Professor Harold Goodman makes an incredible discovery: a cluster of skin cells still alive after 2000 years. ...
• Newspaper editor Decker wangles his way onto a scientific expedition that examines the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. When body cells stuck to the shroud are found to be "alive," they are cloned, and the resulting baby, Christopher, changes the course of history. ...
• What begins as a scientist's plan to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life by cloning live cells found on the Shroud of Turin, turns into a nightmare of worldwide destruction and the ultimate battle between good and evil. ...
• Recounting the actual events of a 1978 expedition of American scientists to examine the Shroud of Turin (believed by millions to be the burial shroud of Jesus), author James BeauSeigneur takes you to the origins of a conspiracy that will change the world forever. ... Based on his discovery and the theories of real-life Nobel Prize winner, Francis Crick, Goodman sets about to prove that the man on the Shroud was actually a member of an alien race, four billion years advanced to life on earth. The incredible plan to prove his theory: clone Jesus! The cloning of Jesus from the cells found on the shroud sets in motion forces which trigger worldwide cataclysms, precipitating the end of life as we know it and ushering in a New Age for the planet.
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• The question regarding the existence of a prototype, whether in the form of an icon or a relic, which inspired the ancient images of Christ, customarily centers around the Shroud of Turin. ...
• 24-31), "The Two Models for Christ in Art: the Shroud and the Holy Face of Manoppello"(p. ... Blandina is the author of the chapter, "The Cloth of the Holy Face of Manoppello and the Holy Shroud of Turin"(p. ...
• The restoration which most interests us is that undertaken during the pontificate of Pope Alexander III (1159-1181), and consists in the application, under the laminated panel, of a painted silk veil, which has become extremely damaged over time.
• According to the Jesuit father the only archetypes which were the models, both in the East and the West, for the images of Christ dating from the first centuries of the Christian era, are the only two Acheropite which are still with us: The Shroud of Turin and the Holy Face of Manoppello. ...
• The Shroud gives more evidence to the bone structure while the Holy Face, more spherical, underlines the vital aspects, in particular the eyes.
• Where one can suppose a more direct connection with the Shroud, for example with the Mandylion or Image of Edessa (14), the iconographic characteristics of the Cloth of Turin are prevalent. ...
• "Were these drawing done at Rome? Were the two models, the Shroud and the Veil, still together at this time? Were the two models together but materially separated one from the other, or did they form one unit, with one piece of material placed on top of the other?" Legitimate questions that however bring us to another class of problems upon which already rivers of ink have been poured without a coherent interpretation of the various experimental, historical and exigetical investigations which have been undertaken. ...
• The Trappist Religious looked to the East, to the Holy Shroud, the image that was most dear to her heart; despite having known the Jesuit father, who had spoken of the Roman Veronica preserved at Manoppello. ...
• (Against a fact there is no argument) In fact, my eyes were quickly drawn to the extremely close similarity between the Face of Manoppello and that of the icons under consideration, even if some of the iconographic elements are those of the Holy Shroud.
• ’s research, by those who are experts in the study of the Shroud.
• The Holy Face and the Shroud.
• If, as often happens, in the same work of art some elements proper to the Holy Shroud appear contemporarily with other elements typical of the Face of Manoppello, it is still true that in the past the Face of the Shroud was not able to be seen, even today we know it through its photographic negative, with an exceptional richness of details. ...
• Nevertheless, taking the negative of the Shroud, following the first photography taken by Giuseppe Enrie (1888-1961) in 1931 (21), and superimposing it on the anterior side of the Veil, a good ten points of congruence can be found. ...
• Catherine in the Sinai,- are superimposed almost perfectly both to the Shroud and to the Holy Face.
• I find a statement that, in my opinion, stretches in an inappropriate way the objective correspondence verified between the two faces: "I understood that the Shroud should be seen differently: the eyes are not closed and also the teeth are seen as in the Veil of Manoppello. ...

• These customs are based primarily on the long-standing tradition of care of the textiles in that group and on the inherent strength of those textiles to withstand restoration or conservation. ...
• The Shroud of Turin (fig. ...
• For those familiar with original condition, this can be unacceptable and inevitably raises the issue of restoration. ...
• Historically, the marketplace has promoted restoration, and it continues to do so. For some damaged textiles, restoration increases their market value. ...
• Examples of such pieces are the Shroud of Turin (fig. ...

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• Shroud Narrowly Misses Fire -- Again!.
• SHROUD NARROWLY ESCAPES FIRE -- AGAIN! .
• Schwortz, Shroud of Turin Web Site, 4/18/97).
• JOHN THE BAPTIST in Turin, Italy, repository of the world-famous Shroud, was badly damaged by fire on Friday, April 11. The Shroud, which is stored in a flat silver casket, was rescued from the flames by firemen who had to batter down a shield of bulletproof glass to get at it. ... Fortunately, the Shroud had been previously moved from the altar of the Chapel to a safer place inside the Cathedral itself while the renovations were taking place. ...
• This is the third time that the Shroud has faced a dangerous trial by fire and survived. "It's intact, it's a miracle," said Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, Archbishop of Turin and Custodian of the Shroud, after the shroud was turned over to him for safekeeping. ... "It would have been better if the shroud had been burnt," said Vittorio Sgarbi, a high-profile Italian art historian and member of parliament. ... This is extraordinary!" As the Shroud was carried from the Cathedral by the team of fireman, hundreds of onlookers applauded the rescue effort while many others wept at the sight of the seriously damaged dome. ... The Pope has announced that he will be conferring a Papal Honor on the firemen who risked their lives in heroically rescuing the Shroud.
• The Shroud was unfolded and examined on April 14, in the presence of Cardinal Archbishop Giovanni Saldarini. ...
• The European Parliament is expected to meet in Brussels to decide how much it would set aside for the restoration effort. Italian Deputy Prime Minister Walter Veltroni said the government has appropriated 12 billion liras for the urgent temporary covering to the damaged premises and has set aside an additional 100 billion liras for the reconstruction of the Shroud Chapel. ... Secretary-General Kofi Annan, saying he was "struck and sorrowful," promised he would ask UNESCO to help Turin financially. ...
• In spite of this near tragedy, it seems that once again, the Shroud of Turin will endure. The Shroud has had previous "trials by fire. ... In 1534 these burn holes were repaired by the Poor Clare Nuns, who sewed patches into the largest holes and attached a full size backing cloth to the Shroud (known as the Holland Cloth) to strengthen it. Also apparent on the Shroud are four sets of four burn holes in an "L" shape. ... An illuminated Hungarian text from 1204, called the Pray Manuscript, includes an illustration of the Shroud and shows these unique burn holes.

• Pope urges science to probe Turin Shroud .
• TURIN -- Calling the Shroud of Turin a challenge to intelligence, Pope John Paul II yesterday encouraged scientists to keep testing the mysterious linen many believe wrapped the body of the crucified Christ. ...
• CAIRO -- An immense white sheet, spangled with golden stars, will slide from the shoulders of Egypt's ancient Sphinx today to reveal it in all its new splendour following ten years of restoration work. ...

• The restoration of the desecration of the Temple. ...
• the fiftieth day where we get our Greek word Pentecost) is reputed by Jewish guides to be the image on the shroud of Turin. ...
• Jesus DELIBERATELY COMES IN ON THE ANIMAL SYMBOLIZING LOWLINESS SINCE HE HAD BEEN TRYING TO TEACH IT VERBALLY AND THROUGH HEAVENLY RESTORATION OF THE PHYSICAL. ...

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• The Face on the Shroud overlayed on a painting of Jesus Christ from the 6th century! Notice the exact matching of the features.
• For many have studied my linen cloth, known as the Shroud of Turin, and have been told much, yet, even still, they are mystified by my image. ...
• My Shroud cloth was hidden above a gate in the ancient city of Edessa, Turkey for 600 years after my death. ...
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• For an intensive, factual, and objective study of the Shroud, with decades of research and study, visit Barrie M. Schwortz's site, Shroud. com, whom we thank for the courtesy of allowing us to use his official photographs of the Shroud of Turin. ...
• *Note* For the most in-depth and authoritative study on the Shroud Of Turin, please read "The Blood and the Shroud" (New Evidence That The World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real). ...

• This lab is one of the three labs that dated the Shroud of Turin, showing it to be of medieval manufacture— a fact that scholars and scientists have argued for years. Results of tests on the Jerusalem shroud showed it to be from the mid-first century CE. ... Orit Shamir of the Israel Antiquities Authority analyzed the shroud textile, which was carbonized and fragmentary. ...
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• The Jerusalem Shroud is the subject of a documentary produced by Raymond Bruce of CTVC in the UK, which will air on the Discovery Channel in the spring of 2003. ...

• Peter's restoration under Paul V's papacy (1605-1621), the Chapel where Veronica's veil was kept was demolished. ... Scientific research carried out recently shows that the image on the Holy Shroud of Turin and the image which appears on the veil in Manoppello are of identical size and superimposable, the only difference being that on the relic of Manoppello the mouth and eyes are open. Research carried out by Father Enrico Sammarco and Sister Blandina Paschalis Schomer show that the dimensions of the face on the Holy Shroud are the same as on the veil of Manoppello. ... " For Christians, in the case of Veronica's Veil — as also in the case of the Shroud of Turin — to believe or not to believe in its authenticity is not a matter of faith. ...

• Shroud of Turin returns to Italian cathedral .
•   TURIN, Italy -- The famed shroud of Turin has returned to the San Giovanni Cathedral after being whisked away following a devastating fire last year.
• Restoration of chapel gives glimpse into building's past.

• Those supporting a military response to the ET presence generally and ET intervention in particular, have in mind a policy similar to the Meiji restoration of Japan where in a short few decades Japan responded to the presence of more technologically advanced European nations by rapidly industrializing its military, technological and political sectors to the extent that it transformed itself from a weak feudal state characterized by competing warlords to a centralized dynastic kingdom under the Meiji Emperors. The Meiji Restoration led to the most remarkable industrialization effort ever witnessed and was so rapid and far reaching in scope that Japan was in a few short decades able to defeat a major European power, Russia, during the 1905 Russo-Japanese war. ... What distinguished the Meiji Restoration as an example of a less developed civilization responding to the presence and intervention of a more ‘advanced' civilization was the ability of the Japanese to quickly unify in response to the threat posed by colonial Europe and the US, as opposed to the disunity that characterized the indigenous kingdoms of the Americas that were easily picked off one at a time by the cunning Spanish Conquistadores. ...
• At first sight, a global policy based on the Meiji restoration is very understandable and even praiseworthy in the means by which it sets out to preserve humanity's sovereignty and independence by a rapid program of military modernization and global political unity. ...
• Using time travel technology, such ET races could use DNA samples from the ‘historic Jesus' or religious relics such as the Shroud of Turin, to clone a hybrid ET/human being that could be passed off as the returning Christ. ...

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• Turin Shroud may be genuine after all The Turin Shroud bearing the features of a crucified man may well be the cloth that enveloped the body of Christ, a renowned textile historian told United Press International Tuesday. Disputing inconclusive carbon-dating tests suggesting the shroud hailed from medieval times, Swiss specialist Mechthild Flury-Lemberg said it could be almost 2,000 years old. Perhaps even more important is what Flury-Lemberg saw when she examined the back of the shroud – the first researcher ever to do so. ... Flury-Lemberg, a Hamburg-born scholar now living in Berne, Switzerland, did preservation work on the shroud this summer. ... Some theologians believe this may have occurred as Christ's body exited the shroud during his resurrection. ... The same applied to the question if the tortured and crucified man buried in the shroud was Jesus. ... the linen's progressing oxidization had been endangering the shroud. ... " She cleaned the shroud before it was sewn to a new cloth. Pollen analysis and the shroud's measurements suggested it originated in the Middle East and not in medieval Europe. ... According to the Berne scholar, other first-century cloths found in the Red Sea region showed weaving patterns similar to those of the Turin Shroud. ... She made it clear she was not a Roman Catholic but a Lutheran, "but this shroud is not just a Catholic relic but a treasure of all Christendom.
• Experts Restore Shroud of Turin Click image to enlarge.  Experts performed a top-secret restoration of the Shroud of Turin, removing centuries' old patches and a replacing a backing sewn centuries ago onto what some say was the burial cloth of Jesus, Church officials announced Saturday. The restoration was carried out with explicit Vatican permission, and aimed only to protect and document the artifact. The project consisted of three main elements: the removal of patches and a backing sewn onto the Shroud in the 16th century; a digital scan of both sides; and photo documentation. ... Shroud custodians said Saturday that silence was needed because they feared after Sept. ... The shroud is kept under tight security, with only a handful of people allowed access, among them Flury Lemberg, who was part of a commission established to study its conservation in 2000. ... " Vatican scientists accused of destroying Turin Shroud Microscopic particles that could have proved whether or not the Shroud of Turin could be dated to around the time of the death of Christ have been destroyed by Vatican scientists. Scientists performed a secret restoration of the shroud -- which supposedly wrapped the body of Jesus after his crucifixion -- during which they cleaned and restored the burial cloth. ... It is feared the process could compromise the possibility of ever conclusively carbon-dating the shroud, which believers claim bears the image of Christ after his body was cut down from the cross. The respected group of Shroud experts and academics, the Collegamento pro-Sidone, has written to Pope John Paul II protesting at the latest work and saying it caused the 'loss of precious material'. ...

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