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• Vatican Says New Tests Possible on Turin Shroud V A T I C A N C I T Y, May 23, 2000 (Reuters) - 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. ...
• "We know it has to be science, and not faith, that has the last word on this mysterious image," Archbishop Severino Poletto told a news conference at the Vatican. ...
• On Display for Holy Year Archbishop Poletto said he had noted divisions over the carbon dating results among the 39 scientists who attended a Shroud symposium in March, 2000. The Shroud goes on display in Turin from Aug. ... Two were in favour and two, one from Hong Kong and one from Russia, radically criticized the method that was used," Poletto said. ... " 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. ...
• 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. ...
• "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. ...

• 02 - Controverse autour du suaire de Turin.
• Des scientifiques ont critiqué le traitement de restauration apporté au Saint Suaire de Turin, le procédé employé aurait détruit des preuves qui auraient permis de statuer sur sa datation. ...
• Le "Collegamento pro-Sidone" a écrit à Jean Paul II pour protester contre la restauration que vient de subir le suaire de Turin. De microscopiques particules de pollens présentes dans le tissu auraient été ainsi détruites par le procédé de conservation apporté au suaire de Turin durant les mois de juin et juillet. ...
• Le cardinal Severino Poletto, archevêque de Turin, confirme que la restauration effectuée n'a provoqué aucun dommage. ...
• Pour plus d'informations : Diocèse de Turin.

• The photo is found in the late patriarch’s Turin residence and was one of his favorites .
• Turin bade an emotional farewell to its most famous son as Fiat partriarch Giovanni Agnelli’s coffin was borne out of the city which became synonymous with the worldwide conglomerate he created.
• An estimated 10,000 mourners who crowded around Turin cathedral, many of them Fiat assembly line workers, applauded as his coffin, bedecked with white roses, was taken to his last resting place in the family vault outside the city.
• The cardinal-archbishop of Turin, Mgr. Severino Poletto, told mourners during the solemn requiem mass, punctuated by choral music by Bach, that Agnelli had earned the merit of “the city, Italy and the world”.
• Poletto said Turin, where thousands of families have earned their living on Fiat assembly lines since it was founded by Agnelli’s grandfather in 1899, “is a city moved and shaken by this death”. ...
• The cardinal also read out a message from Pope John Paul II, who said Agnelli had “used his enterprise and generosity for good, and for the economic and social development of the country”.
• The cardinal, a family friend who administered the last sacrament to the tycoon shortly before his death, told mourners there was a general feeling “that the company must not only be relaunched but must remain anchored in your, and our, beloved Turin”.
• Platini was one of the few invited to attend the private burial ceremony at the family crypt in the small town of Villar Perosa, some 50 kilometers from Turin.
• Juventus, the Italian champions, and their opponents Piacenza, marked their president’s death by observing a minute’s silence before their game in Turin.

• Brief history of the Parish of San Giacomo Apostle - Turin - Barca.
•      The following news are drawn from "The Historical, geographical, statistical, commercial Dictionary of      States of the King of Sardinia" by Goffredo Casalis volume XX pages 515-517, Turin, 1850: "The place   of this abbey is in the north territory of Turin about two miles far from the city centre. ... The former founder of the abbey was Pietro Podisio an illustrious torinese jurisconsult that January 25th 1146 assigned to Vitale - Abbot of Vallombrosa - a house and many vineyards, fields and meadows in the country surroundings of Turin in order to build an hospital with the double purpose to shelter the lepers, and to relieve the pilgrims, helping them cross the Stura river by a small boat. Later the Bishops of Turin, the Marquises of Monferrato and the Princes of Casa Savoia contributed with donations of many holdings to this charitable istitution.
• First abbot of San Giacomo di Stura was a certain Simeone, who acquired from the Bishop of Turin some Alps in the Lanzo Valley in 1168. ... Giacomo Bishop of Turin ended the quarrel that this abbot had with the Bishop of San Mauro and in his times Enrico gentlemen of Baratonia, assigned to the abbey of San Giacomo in the territory of Usseglio a house and a forest. ...
• The subsequent abbots were: Egidio, Giacomo from Caselle, Raimondo that accepted many properties given to his abbey from the brothers Martino e Tommaso from Mombello, Lorenzo, Lucio, Ugone, Ruffino Buttisello, Pietro Borghese patrician of Turin, Filippo of the gentlemen from Settimo Torinese, Francesco, Eustachio di Romagnano abbot of San Michele della Chiusa that was also abbot of San Giacomo di Stura in 1397, Tommaso Brancaccio last abbot that was nephew by sister of the Pope that made him cardinal with the title of the Saints Giovanni and Paolo of 1411. Then this abbey was given in commends to Aimone Bishop of Turin and later from Martino V in 1420 was incorporated to the torinese episcopalian refectory. This incorporation was confirmed from the Supreme Pontiff Pio II, February 17th 1458, with the extension of the abbatial dignity and with the union of Santa Maria di Stura, of San Giacomo of Boissano and of San Solutore minor near Turin".
• From a report sent February 8th 1909 from the theologian Casale Carlo, parish vicar of the mayor of Turin is read: "The church is of medieval period, but ruined by the invasion of the hostile armies in the sieges of Turin, from ancientness and from following enlargements and it doesn't preserve of its ancient form that the outside of the apse, with the relative well preserved bell tower, despite the carelessness of the times".
• Don Giovanni Massimo undertook the direction of the parish as parish steward, awaiting that the Cardinal Fossati named the new vicar and carring on his service up to January 1940. ...
• In the meantime the Cardinal Fossati named priest of San Giacomo Father Gaspare Fracassi that did the parish entry march 3rd 1940. The choice of the Cardinal Fossati fell on the Francescanis Conventuali, warmly requested to collaborate for resolving the difficult economic situation of the parish.
• September 13th 1954 the Civil Genius of Turin, verified the dangerousness of the church of the abbey and ordered the suspension of the religious services. November 7th 1960 the Cardinal Fossati decreed:" 1° The church of San Giacomo Apostolo chief site of the homonym parish situated in region Abbadia di Stura is desecrated and therefore reduced to profane building. ...
• On the report about the parish activity read to the Cardinal Michele Pellegrino on the occasion of the pastoral visit of February 22nd 1970 it is possible reading: "With the increasing of population there was more and more the necessity of a new church that was able to contain the believers with a certain convenience in manner not to be packed in church like sardines, in an environment that was pleasant and heated most of all for us living immersed in the fog. ... It has been possible to realize the new church without the contribution of the Turin-churches but with the help of the Orders, with the sacrifices, renouncements of the Fathers, with the generosity of the population that in spite of being poor people, had answered with devotion and enthusiasm".

• Cardinal Poletto.
• Severino Card. POLETTO Position: Archbishop of Turin Age: 71 (Born Saturday, March 18, 1933) From: Italy Cardinal since: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 Title: Cardinal Priest of San Giuseppe in Via Trionfale (diaconal title raised 'pro hac vice' to a presbyteral title) .
• Cardinal Poletto was born in Salgareda (Italy) on 18 March 1933. ... He was made coadjutor bishop of Fossano on 3 April 1980 and was consecrated in Casale Monferrato on 17 May 1980 by Cardinal Ballestrero, Archbishop of Turin. ... He was made bishop of Asti on 16 March 1989 and then Archbishop of Turin on 18 June 1999. ...

• New Tests on Turin Shroud.
• VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church could allow new tests to be carried out on the Turin Shroud to try to solve the riddle of one of Christianity's most enduring enigmas, the archbishop of Turin said Monday. ...
• ``We know it has to be science, and not faith, that has the last word on this mysterious image,'' Archbishop Severino Poletto told a news conference at the Vatican. ...
• 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 August 12 to October 22 as part of the Vatican's Holy Year celebrations. ...
• Two were in favor and two, one from Hong Kong and one from Russia, radically criticized the method that was used,'' Poletto said. ...
• 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. ...
• Pope John Paul said in 1998 after travelling 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. ...
• ``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. ...

• Severino Poletto.
• Born on March 18, 1933, in Salgareda, Italy, Severino Poletto studied at the Casale Monferrato diocesan seminary and the Academy of St. ... In 1989, John Paul II named him bishop of Asti, where he remained for ten years until he was named archbishop of Turin and appointed the custodian of the shroud. ...

• Shroud of Turin undergoes secret restoration work.
• TURIN, Italy (CNS) - Promising a press conference and extensive documentation in September, Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin has confirmed he had authorized conservation work on the Shroud of Turin. ...
• 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. ...
• Cardinal Poletto told Avvenire, an Italian Catholic newspaper, that the work was carried out quietly "in order to guarantee the necessary calm for those working on it, as well as for obvious reasons of security. ...
• With no wear and tear on the fabric and the best preservation technology currently available, the cardinal said, it did not make sense to continue risking contamination from the patches or from the dust trapped between the backing fabric and the shroud.

• RESTORATION OF SHROUD OF TURIN IS COMPLETED.
• TURIN, Italy, SEPT. ... - The figure of the crucified man imprinted on the Shroud of Turin can now be more clearly seen, following its restoration by experts. ...
• At the official presentation of the restored shroud Saturday, Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, explained that the purpose of the work was to guarantee the conservation of the cloth. ...
• The cardinal, who is the relic's pontifical custodian, said that the restoration was carried out with the permission of the Holy See (which owns the shroud), and in keeping with the advice of technical experts. ...
• The restoration of the shroud, in which according to tradition the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion, was carried out last June and July in the sacristy of the Turin cathedral. ...
• Cardinal Poletto said the shroud must not become a source of conflict, division or controversy, but a point of reference for deeper reflection and prayer. He expressed the hope that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and John Paul II will be able to meet in Turin and pray together before the shroud. ...
• The chapel of the Turin cathedral where the shroud is kept is constantly under surveillance. ...
• For the first time, both sides of the Shroud of Turin have been reproduced on computers. Cardinal Poletto said a dossier will be sent to the Vatican, which could then call for further scientific studies of the shroud. ...
• Shroud of Turin Website: .
• In June-July 2002, a major restoration of the Shroud of Turin was undertaken by its owners. ...

• Gregorio VII Church in Rome; Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Arcibishop of Paris, in French, at Saints Ambrose and Charles Church in Rome; French Episcopal Conference President and Lyon Bishop Monsignor Louis-Marie Billé in French at tennis stadium in Rome; CEI President and Vicar of Rome Cardinal Camillo Ruini, in Italian, at St. John the Lateran Basilica; Milan Arcibishop Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, in Italian, at Italian Civilization Palace stairs (Quadrato della Concordia); the Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, in Italian, at Jesus Church in Rome; Turin Aricibishop, Monsignor Severino Poletto, in Italian, at St. ... Agostino Church in Rome; Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Prefect of Congregation for Oriental Churches, in Italian at St. Benedetto Church, in Rome; the Secretary of Congregation for  doctrine of faith, Monsignor Tarcisio Bertone, in Italian, at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica; the Bishops Germano Zaccheo (Casale), Vincenzo Savio (Livorno) and Antonio Riboldi (Acerra) in Rebibbia, Casal del Marmo and Regina Cieli Prison; the Sckodre Bishop Monsignor Angelo Massafra, in Italian, at Polar Star Stadium in Ostia; the Cardinal Francis Arinze, Pontificial Council for interreligious dialogue, in English, at the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the wall in Rome; the Arcibishop Monsignor John Foley, President of Pontificial Council for Social Communication in English, at st. Maria Goretti Church in Rome; the Arcibishop of Madrid  Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, in Spanish, at Commercal City of Via Portuense in Rome; and Deutch Episcopal Conference President and Bishop of Mainz Monsignor Karl Lehmann, in Deutch, at St. ...

• Restoration of Shroud of Turin Is Completed.
• Restoration of Shroud of Turin Is Completed .
• TURIN, Italy, SEPT. ... - The figure of the crucified man imprinted on the Shroud of Turin can now be more clearly seen, following its restoration by experts. ...
• At the official presentation of the restored shroud Saturday, Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, explained that the purpose of the work was to guarantee the conservation of the cloth. ...
• The cardinal, who is the relic's pontifical custodian, said that the restoration was carried out with the permission of the Holy See (which owns the shroud), and in keeping with the advice of technical experts. ...
• The restoration of the shroud, in which according to tradition the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion, was carried out last June and July in the sacristy of the Turin cathedral. ...
• Cardinal Poletto said the shroud must not become a source of conflict, division or controversy, but a point of reference for deeper reflection and prayer. ...
• He expressed the hope that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and John Paul II will be able to meet in Turin and pray together before the shroud. ...
• The chapel of the Turin cathedral where the shroud is kept is constantly under surveillance. ...
• For the first time, both sides of the Shroud of Turin have been reproduced on computers. ...
• Cardinal Poletto said a dossier will be sent to the Vatican, which could then call for further scientific studies of the shroud. ...

• Then, one week later, he surprised them again by naming five more new cardinals, as well as revealing the identity of two prelates who had already been elevated to the rank of cardinal in pectore. ...
• These new additions would have--barring deaths among the eligible prelates--raised the number of cardinal-electors to 128. Pope Paul VI had set the maximum number of cardinal-electors at 120; John Paul was using his discretionary authority to exceed that limit. ...
• Now, except insofar as deaths cut into the membership of the College of Cardinals, the number of cardinal-electors will not drop below 120 until January 2003. ...
• He will become one of three patriarchs in the College of Cardinals, joining Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, and Patriarch Ignace Moussa Daoud (see below). ...
• A Pontifical Council is usually headed by a cardinal; but it is unprecedented that the second-ranking official would also wear a red hat. ...
• The inclusion of his name, in the Pope's second announcement, provided the biggest surprise of the consistory, and the cardinal-designate wasted no time in claiming that his elevation was a vindication of his efforts. ...
• - Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; - Bernard Agré, Archbishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast; - Francisco Alvarez Martínez, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain; - Audrys Juozas Backis, Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania; - Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina; - Louis-Marie Billé, Archbishop of Lyon, France; - Agostino Cacciavillan, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See; - Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima, Peru; - Desmond Connell, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland; - Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches; - Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany; - Ivan Dias, Archbishop of Bombay, India; - Avery Dulles, SJ; - Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York, USA; - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile; - Stéphanos II Ghattas of Alexandria, Egypt, Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church; - Antonio José González Zumárraga, Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador; - Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education; - Jean Honoré, archbishop emeritus of Archdiocese of Tours, France; - Cláudio Hummes, Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil; - Lubomyr Husar, Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine: the major archdiocese of the Ukrainian Catholic Church; - Walter Kasper, secretary of the Congregation for Christian Unity; - Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz, Germany; - Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, DC, USA; - Jorge María Mejía, the Vatican archivist and librarian; - Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, Great Britain; - Wilfrid Fox Napier, Archbishop of Durban, South Africa; - François Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; - Severino Poletto, Archbishop of Turin, Italy; - José da Cruz Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal; - Mario Francesco Pompedda, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura; - Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; - Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; - Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia; - José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints; - Leo Scheffczyk; - Sergio Sebastiani, president of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See; - Crescenzio Sepe, secretary general of the committee that coordinated the Jubilee celebration; - Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Archbishop of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; - Roberto Tucci, SJ; - Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela; - Varkey Vithayathil, Archbishop of Ernaklum-Angamalay, India: the major archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. ...
• The appointment of the Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland, as a cardinal has been greeted with shock by liberals. ...
• But in 1893, Archbishop Michael Logue of Armagh was appointed cardinal. ...
• He became coadjutor archbishop of Armagh in February 1995 and succeeded Cardinal Cahal Daly 20 months later. (Cardinal Daly, although retired, is still active at the age of 82. ...

•         > Turin Shroud.
• Turin Shroud ROME, Aug. 21 — Experts on the Shroud of Turin said Wednesday they felt frustrated and betrayed to learn that a Swiss textile expert had obtained Vatican approval to test the sacred cloth without involvement from the international scientific community.
• Kept in the Cathedral of Turin, it is rarely displayed to the public.
• “This one was limited strictly to certain favorites in Turin, and Flury-Lemberg was one,” said the Rev. ...
• Cardinal Severino Poletto, the archbishop of Turin and the shroud’s custodian, said in an interview with the Italian Catholic newspaper L’Avvenire that the Vatican approved the tests.
• Paul Maloney, general projects director for the Association of Scientists and Scholars International for the Shroud of Turin, located in Pennsylvania, said the lack of information has “many of us around the world very frustrated, because we don’t know how to assess what they have done. ...
• The cardinal said the research involved removing impurities and residue from the cloth, which is 13 feet (4 meters) long and 3 feet (1 meter) wide.
• “The interventions have been carried out reservedly not out of a great desire for secrecy, but to guarantee the necessary calm for those who had to work, beside obvious reasons for safety,” Poletto told L’Avennire.

• TURIN, Italy, NOV. ... - An investigation by the Italian daily La Stampa of medical "death trips" to the Netherlands has sparked a judicial investigation in Turin and abroad. ...
• Exit, a Turin "cultural" association, has been accused of organizing trips to the Netherlands, where euthanasia is legal, for terminal patients seeking a "gentle death. ...
• On Sunday, police raided the Turin premises of Exit and confiscated computers and documents. ...
• Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin told the press: "How is it possible that an organization exists to carry out abroad what is prohibited in Italy?" .
• Cardinal Poletto noted that a few years ago the municipal council in Turin approved a motion in favor of euthanasia. ...

• ­ Le Suaire de Turin "n'est pas l'image d'un défunt, même selon les dernières recherches scientifiques, mais d'un homme qui est ressuscité. ...
• C'est ce qu'affirmait aujourd'hui à Turin le cardinal archevêque de Vienne, Christoph Schönborn, au terme de son pèlerinage.
• Le cardinal a publié des études sur "L'Icône du Christ", et écrit un livre sur le Suaire, mais ce n'est qu'aujourd'hui qu'il s'est rendu en pèlerin à la cathédrale de Turin pour vénérer le Saint-Suaire, annoncent les agences italiennes. ...
• Le cardinal a célébré la messe de 8 heures à la cathédrale en compagnie de Mgr Severino Poletto, archevêque de la ville. ...

• A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF TURIN.
• The origins of the Church of Turin go back to about 1700 years ago, in the fourth century, during the age of th Emperor Costantin, after then roman persecution. ...
• Our diocese’s “heart”, the Cathedral of Turin, mother of all parish churches, rose in the same period. ...
• Aware of the economical and social changes, happening in Turin, he took care above all of the young workers founding the newspaper “La Voce dell’Operaio”, today become the diocese weekly journal “La Voce del Popolo”. ...
• From the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century, the Church of Turin is represented by lay saints, spread from the Conference of Saint Vincenzo, the Catholic Action and the groups bound  to the “catholic movement”, unich particularly developed in Turin. ...
• Nowadays John Pul II has chosen Monsignor Severino Poletto, yet bishop of Fossano and Asti dioceses, to lead the Church in Turin. He succeeds some well deserving bishops; his immediate forerunner Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, the Cardinals Anastasio Ballestrero and Michele Pellegrino, who have already returned to the Father’s House. The Church of Turin’s gratitude and prayer goes to all of them. ...

• ROME (AP) -- Experts on the Shroud of Turin said Wednesday they felt frustrated and betrayed to learn a Swiss textile expert had obtained Vatican approval to test the sacred cloth without involvement from the international scientific community. ...
• Kept in the Cathedral of Turin, it is rarely displayed to the public. ...
• "This one was limited strictly to certain favorites in Turin, and Flury-Lemberg was one," said the Rev. ...
• Cardinal Severino Poletto, the archbishop of Turin and the shroud's custodian, said in an interview with the Italian Catholic newspaper L'Avvenire that the Vatican approved the tests. ...
• Paul Maloney, general projects director for the Association of Scientists and Scholars International for the Shroud of Turin, located in Pennsylvania, said the lack of information has "many of us around the world very frustrated, because we don't know how to assess what they have done. ...
• The cardinal said the research involved removing impurities and residue from the cloth, which is 13 feet long and three feet wide. ...
• "The interventions have been carried out reservedly not out of a great desire for secrecy, but to guarantee the necessary calm for those who had to work, beside obvious reasons for safety," Poletto told L'Avennire. ...

• Turin - Royal Theatre.
• Chiara Lubich made an honorary citizen of Turin.
• Chiara Lubich, the founder and president of the Focolare Movement, became honorary citizen of Turin at a ceremony in the Royal Theatre, on June 2.
• The Vice Mayor, Marco Calgaro, a representative of the Piemonte Region, the President of the Province of Turin, Madam Mercedes Bresso, Cardinal Severino Poletto welcomed Chiara Lubich. ...
• The Choir of the University of Turin, directed by Sergio Pasteris, ended the event with a concert.

• TURIN (AP) - Des dizaines de milliers d'Italiens, de simples ouvriers à des stars du football en passant par des dirigeants politiques, ont défilé samedi à Turin devant le cercueil de Giovanni Agnelli pour rendre un dernier hommage au patriarche de Fiat. ...
• Le cercueil était recouvert de simples couronnes de fleurs et entouré d'écharpes de supporters aux couleurs de son club de football, la Juventus de Turin. ...
• Les funérailles religieuses devaient être célébrées dimanche en la cathédrale de Turin par le cardinal de la ville, Severino Poletto. ...
• Giovanni Agnelli devait ensuite être inhumé lors d'une cérémonie privée dans la villa que possède la famille à l'extérieur de Turin. ...

• 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.
•     “We know it has to be science, and not faith, that has the last word on this mysterious image,” Archbishop Severino Poletto told a news conference at the Vatican.
• 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. ...
• Two were in favour and two, one from Hong Kong and one from Russia, radically criticized the method that was used,” Poletto said.
•      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. ...
•      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. ...
•      “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.

• Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris delivered the first catechetical talk, speaking in the Church of St. ... " After his talk, Cardinal Lustiger remarked to a reporter that World Youth Day was "a great gift of renewal" for the Church. ...
• English-speaking pilgrims gathered in the Olympic Stadium in northeastern Rome to hear Philadelphia's Cardinal Joseph Bevilacqua speak. "We represent the only religion on earth that puts its faith in a living person," the American cardinal remarked.
• Just outside the ancient catacombs, Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin spoke in Italian, while at another church nearby Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan did the same.

• ROME - Experts on the Shroud of Turin said they are frustrated and betrayed to learn that a Swiss textile expert obtained Vatican ap-proval to test the sacred cloth without involvement from the international scientific community.
• Kept in the Cathedral of Turin, it is rarely displayed to the public.
• Paul Maloney, general projects director for the Association of Scientists and Scholars International for the Shroud of Turin, located in Pennsylvania, said Wednesday that the lack of information has "many of us around the world very frustrated, because we don't know how to assess what they have done. ...
• Cardinal Severino Poletto, the archbishop of Turin and the shroud's custodian, told the Italian Catholic newspaper L'Avvenire that the Vatican approved the tests.
• ONLINE: Shroud of Turin, www. ...

• Keyword: turin.
• SHROUD OF TURIN REVEALS IMAGES OF TWO CROWNS OF THORNS.
• March 2003 -- A new discovery on the Shroud of Turin by Alan and Mary Whanger, major researchers on the Shroud since 1979, shows the image of a second Crown of Thorns, one of the most famous objects in history. ...
• Shroud of Turin proven genuine by science (20 min video clip).
• Most people probably heard by now all kinds of stories about Shroud of Turin being fake, etc. ...
• Restoration of Shroud of Turin is Completed.
• RESTORATION OF SHROUD OF TURIN IS COMPLETED Patches and Additions RemovedTURIN, Italy, SEPT. ... - The figure of the crucified man imprinted on the Shroud of Turin can now be more clearly seen, following its restoration by experts. At the official presentation of the restored shroud Saturday, Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, explained that the purpose of the work was to guarantee the conservation of the cloth. ... The cardinal, who is the relic's pontifical custodian, said that the restoration was carried out with the permission of. ...

• Restoration of Shroud of Turin is Completed.
• RESTORATION OF SHROUD OF TURIN IS COMPLETED.
• TURIN, Italy, SEPT. ... - The figure of the crucified man imprinted on the Shroud of Turin can now be more clearly seen, following its restoration by experts.
• At the official presentation of the restored shroud Saturday, Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, explained that the purpose of the work was to guarantee the conservation of the cloth. ...
• The cardinal, who is the relic's pontifical custodian, said that the restoration was carried out with the permission of the Holy See (which owns the shroud), and in keeping with the advice of technical experts.
• The restoration of the shroud, in which according to tradition the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion, was carried out last June and July in the sacristy of the Turin cathedral. ...
• Cardinal Poletto said the shroud must not become a source of conflict, division or controversy, but a point of reference for deeper reflection and prayer.
• He expressed the hope that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and John Paul II will be able to meet in Turin and pray together before the shroud. ...
• The chapel of the Turin cathedral where the shroud is kept is constantly under surveillance.
• For the first time, both sides of the Shroud of Turin have been reproduced on computers.
• Cardinal Poletto said a dossier will be sent to the Vatican, which could then call for further scientific studies of the shroud.
• KEYWORDS: SHROUD; SHROUDOFTURIN; TURIN   1 posted on 09/24/2002 12:24:43 PM PDT by patent Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies To: ArrogantBustard; Ronaldus Magnus; onedoug; sitetest; sinkspur; Desdemona; american colleen;. ...
• I think someone could write a terrific novel about some bad guys trying to steal the Shroud of Turin. ... Only a few years back, Turin Cathedral caught fire, and rumours circulated that this was a deliberate attempt to destroy the shroud. ...
• ESSAY: The Resurrection Problem and the Shroud of Turin 10 posted on 09/24/2002 9:47:28 PM PDT by polemikos Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies To: Theresa DNA from the blood used to clone Jesus (aka, the Second Coming).

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