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• Shroud of Turin.
• A negative rendering of the shroud. (Larger Version) The Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth with an imprint of an apparently crucified man. Many people believe this is the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb, while some argue that the image on the Shroud is that of Jacques de Molay, and that the imprint was caused by bodily emissions following his torture. Others contend that the shroud is the artwork of a clever medieval hoaxer. ... The earliest documented appearance of the Shroud is about in 1350. ... Mary of Lirey), in which he would have kept the Shroud (many historians believe he had bought it in Constantinople). During the following decades, the Shroud was publicly exposed, even if not continuously, given that some bishops prohibited this cult. ... But in the following June, Clement VI prescribed indulgences for those who celebrated the Shroud, and the cult continued. In 1418, Humbert of Villersexel, Count de la Roche, Lord of Saint-Hippolyte-sur-Doubs, who had married the grand-daughter of Geoffrey de Charny, moved the Shroud to his castle at Montfort, officially to protect it from criminal bands. ... She travelled with the Shroud, for several expositions (like in Liege and in Geneva). ... In 1471 the Shroud was moved to Vercelli, and in the following years it was in Turin, Ivrea, Susa, Chambery, Avigliano, Rivoli, Pinerolo.
• Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the age of the material in the shroud and found an age approximating to the Middle Ages, around the time of the first known accounts of the shroud, making it around a thousand years newer than its supposed origin. Some proponents of the shroud note that the shroud had been partially burned in a church fire in 1532 and claim this would have an effect on the proportion of carbon isotopes. ... It is conceivable that some atmospheric carbon was deposited on the shroud as soot. Whether this soot contaminated the sample is unknown and permission for any further testing of the shroud has been denied by the Vatican. ... Yet others claim that bacteria feeding on the shroud would affect the proportion of isotopes. Comparison of the Shroud with the Sudarium of Oviedo indicates that they covered the same head, which had many puncture wounds. The shroud was rescued from fire in 1997. The study of the Shroud is called Sindonology (from Greek sindón, the word used for the Shroud and also for a cloth worn by someone in the Gospel of Mark). ...

• Catechism of the Catholic Church - The 800-page document published in 1994 which integrates the conclusions of Vatican II with the whole of Church Tradition, Sacred Scriptures, writings of the Fathers of the Church, the liturgy and the teachings of the Church's Magisterium. ...
• Documents of Vatican II - Constitutions, declarations and decrees of the Second Vatican Council are available at several web sites. This link is to the collection in the Vatican's archive.
• Caution: some of the views expressed are obsolete, for example the Shroud of Turin is described as probably a 15th century fabrication, whereas susequent research has led to a less-doubting view in the New Catholic Encyclopedia (which is not currently on the web).

• THE SHROUD OF TURIN.
• Ian Wilson demolishes this belief in his recent book on the shroud. ...
• Gruber, authors of The Jesus Conspiracy argue that the Vatican knows the truth about the shroud being Jesus burial cloth. ...
• A serious problem with past studies of the Shroud is that most of the experts and other investigators appear to be strongly committed to the belief that the Shroud was used during Jesus' burial. ...
• This author believes that none of the four possibilities (the shroud being a relic, historical artifact, icon or fraud) has been proven beyond reasonable doubt. ... However it would be necessary to replicate the measurements, perhaps using more extreme cleaning techniques before one could say with certainty that the shroud was made from flax that was alive in the early 14th century. ...
• Books about the shroud:.
• Books promoting a 1st century origin of the shroud:  .
• Mark Antonacci, "The Resurrection of the Shroud: New Scientific, Medical, and Archeological Evidence," M Evans, (2000) Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon. ...
• Janice Bennett, "Sacred Blood, Sacred Image : The Sudarium of Oviedo, New Evidence for the Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin," Libri de Hispania, (2001). ...
• Thomas Case, "The shroud of Turin and the C-14 dating fiasco," White Horse Press, (1996). ...
• Vittorio Guerrera, "The Shroud of Turin: A Case of Authenticity," (2000). ...
• Rodney Hoare, "The Turin shroud is genuine: The irrefutable evidence," Souvenir Pr. ...
• Iannone, "The mystery of the Shroud of Turin: New scientific evidence," Alba House, (1998). ...
• This book covers a lot of ground, but devotes a chapter to the Shroud.
• Konikiewicz, "Turin shroud and science," Panorama Publ. ...

• 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. ...

• The Shroud of Turin.
• The Shroud of Turin is a brief but convincing expose of the main facts which coallesce to prove that the Shroud of Turin is in fact the "Winding Sheet" in which Our Lord was interred. Covered here are the evidence from pollen on the Shroud, the way the Shroud matches the head cloth (preserved in Spain), the coins on the eyes and their dates, the nature and number of the wounds on the body, the nature of the actual image on the Shroud, why it could not possibly be a painting, the positive and negative image, what seemingly caused the image, the linen material itself, the Shroud's known history, the dirt on the feet of the body, what caused the person to die, the proofs the subject was buried quickly, etc. All the known facts point to the Shroud's being the true "Winding Sheet of Our Lord"--despite the conclusions of the scientific study done on it in 1988 indicating that it dates from the Middle Ages. The author shows why this latter conclusion is skewed and why it flies in the face of overriding evidence of every other nature that the Shroud most likely is the linen cloth that was wrapped around Our Lord's sacred body when it was laid in the tomb. A fast-paced book that is easy to read, The Shroud of Turin is guaranteed to interest everyone and give convincing proof--despite the recent propaganda to the contrary--that the Shroud of Turin is the actual burial cloth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ...
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• Pollen, plant traces bolster case for Shroud of Turin.
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• the shroud did in fact come from this part of the world,".
• 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.
• The shroud also includes the images of some plants, and.
• 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.
• The shroud went on display in a bulletproof case for several.

• Lavoie is a recognized international authority on the Shroud of Turin. For the last 22 years, he has pursued a medical and scriptural study of the shroud which some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. He has made many new discoveries about the shroud in the area of medicine and has brought new scholarly insights regarding Jewish burial customs connected with the burial of Jesus. His interest has culminated in the creation of a fascinating book, Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud, in which he presents his original studies revealing for the first time ever, stunning new information about the image of the man on the Shroud of Turin. ... , a theologian and the editor of The Documents of Vatican II. ... Lavoie has just finished a revised edition of Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud called Resurrected, published by Thomas More in 2000.
• Lavoie’s publications on the Shroud of Turin are listed below.
• Books: Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud published by 1998, Thomas More.
• Documentary Video: Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud - Produced by Dutch Television Current Affairs 1998.
• “Jesus, the Turin Shroud, and Jewish Burial Customs. ...
• ” Shroud Spectrum International. ...
• “Blood on the Shroud of Turin: Part I. ” Shroud Spectrum International. ...
• “Blood on the Shroud of Turin: Part II. ” Shroud Spectrum International. ...
• “Blood on the Shroud of Turin: Part III The Blood on the Face. ” Shroud Spectrum International. ...

• CTRL Fresh evidence could date Turin shroud to Christ.
• Subject: CTRL Fresh evidence could date Turin shroud to Christ .
• h tml Fresh evidence could date Turin shroud to Christ John Follain, Rome A SWISS scientist claims to have found new evidence suggesting that the Turin shroud, the venerated relic dismissed a decade ago as a medieval fake, might be genuine after all. Carbon dating tests carried out in 1988 indicated that the shroud, revered by many Christians as the winding-sheet in which the body of Christ was wrapped for burial, had been made between 1260 and 1390. However, Mechthild Flury Lemberg, a leading authority on the history of textiles who helped to restore the relic, said last week that she had found a strong similarity between the shroud and fragments of cloth produced in the Middle East about 2,000 years ago. Her claim prompted demands for the Vatican to order new tests. In a report presented to a conference organised by the Catholic church, Lemberg likened stitching on both hems of the shroud and on a lengthy seam down one side to that on cloth found in the ruins of Masada, a mountain stronghold overlooking the Dead Sea and Jordan. ... "In my opinion, the shroud is not a medieval fake. ... "Scientists have been divided on the value of carbon-testing ever since the first test was carried out," said Ian Wilson, author of several books on the shroud and one of the experts summoned by the church. ... " It is up to the Vatican to decide whether to go ahead. Although it has yet to respond officially to Lemberg's analysis, church organisers made her paper the first to be heard at the conference in Turin, where the shroud is kept. The first documented display of a burial shroud bearing the features of Christ dates back to 1389 after Geoffroi de Charnay, a French knight, wrote to Clement VII, the Avignon anti-pope, to tell him of the cloth he had inherited from his father. The shroud will go on public display in a bullet-proof case from August to October as part of the church's celebrations of the 2,000th birthday of Christ.

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• 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. ...
• The Vatican also announced that it would bestow an award on the firefighter. 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. ...

• The Statue of the Shroud of Turin - by Gyula Pauer.
• (from the booklet "The Statue of the Shroud of Turin" - Budapest 1991 and.
• The Statue of the Shroud of Turin.
• It is the experience gathered from this last that has been incorporated into the creation of The Statue of the Shroud of Turin. ...
• The Statue of the Shroud of Turin.
• Gyula Pauer's sculpture, entitled "The Statue of the Shroud of Turin" represents the central figure of human history, the spirit, the God. ... These three ingredients combine to form an object based on the markings appearing on the shroud of Turin. ...
• A form is reconstructed from data gathered from the markings of the two-dimensional shroud: - this form is a three-dimensional surface representing a shroud which enfolds a dead man lying on his back. ...
• When this object, which looks similar to a shroud covering a dead man's body, is raised up to stand on the part of the shroud that enfolds the stretched-out feet, - when, in other words, it is stood on its toes, new meaning emerge, and the object is transformed into a statue.
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• The statue of the Shroud realized by the Hungarian sculptor Gyula Pauer was given to the Pope, who accepted it with joy. ...
• Transferred in Italy, the statue, before the delivery to the Vatican, was shown at the Hungary Academy in Rome. Now it is kept in the Vatican Museums, ethnographic section, and it is part of the collection of the gifts received by the Holy Father. ...
• This statue is a tangible sign of the fact that also in Hungary the interest for the Shroud is more and more on the increase.

• The Shroud of Turin .
• The Shroud of Turin is a brief but convincing expose of the main facts which coallesce to prove that the Shroud of Turin is in fact the "Winding Sheet" in which Our Lord was interred. Covered here are the evidence from pollen on the Shroud, the way the Shroud matches the head cloth (preserved in Spain), the coins on the eyes and their dates, the nature and number of the wounds on the body, the nature of the actual image on the Shroud, why it could not possibly be a painting, the positive and negative image, what seemingly caused the image, the linen material itself, the Shroud's known history, the dirt on the feet of the body, what caused the person to die, the proofs the subject was buried quickly, etc. All the known facts point to the Shroud's being the true "Winding Sheet of Our Lord"--despite the conclusions of the scientific study done on it in 1988 indicating that it dates from the Middle Ages. The author shows why this latter conclusion is skewed and why it flies in the face of overriding evidence of every other nature that the Shroud most likely is the linen cloth that was wrapped around Our Lord's sacred body when it was laid in the tomb. A fast-paced book that is easy to read, The Shroud of Turin is guaranteed to interest everyone and give convincing proof--despite the recent propaganda to the contrary--that the Shroud of Turin is the actual burial cloth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ...
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• OF ALL RELIGIOUS RELICS, the reputed burial cloth of Jesus Christ, the Shroud of Turin, is without a doubt one of the most mystifying objects in existence. ... The Shroud of Turin remains a mysterious gift, accessible only by an act of faith. Something about the Turin Shroud reinforces a spiritual faith in things unknown, unprovable by Science and unexplained by man. In 1984, acclaimed portrait artist Stan Stevenson was commissioned by an authority of the Catholic Church to create a true likeness of this man imaged in the Shroud. ... Stevenson was supplied with rare computer-enhanced photographs of the Shroud that virtually eliminated all distortions. It is not our intention to claim authenticity for the Shroud, but, if it is indeed authentic, and there is a growing belief among scientific investigators that it is, then the portrait of the face in the Shroud painted by Mr. ...
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• According to 1988 carbon 14 test results, it was not, as so many believed, the authentic burial Shroud of Jesus. ...
• The results of radiocarbon measurements at Arizona, Oxford and Zurich yield a calibrated calendar age range with at least 95% confidence for the linen of the Shroud of Turin of AD 1260 - 1390 (rounded down/up to nearest 10 yr). These results therefore provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is mediaeval.
• The laboratories did the tests properly, but there is now serious evidence that the samples cut from the Shroud and provided to the laboratories were contaminated.
• Beta Analytic estimates that a mixture of 60% of material, from the 16th century, with 40% of material from the 1st century would yield the medieval date that was determined for the Shroud. ... According to Rogers, “They were colored for a purpose using technology that was not used in Italy before the 13th Century or in France before the 16th Century, about the time the time the Shroud was moved to Turin from France. ...
• Smith, entitled “Rogue Fibers Found in Shroud,” was published in 1988 that speaks of the discovery of “a fine dark yellow strand of cotton possibly of Egyptian origin, and quite old. ...
• In a new and very decisive paper on the subject, “Scientific Method Applied To The Shroud Of Turin: A Review,” Raymond N. ...
• Rogers and Arnoldi: The combined evidence from chemistry, cotton content, technology, photography, and residual lignin proves that the material of the main part of the Shroud is significantly different from the radiocarbon sampling area. ...
• The newer thread or gum arabic, or some combination of the two, may be enough to skew the date by enough centuries to make the Shroud a first century cloth. ... It is also unlikely – and reasonable – to doubt that the Vatican would allow new carbon 14 tests unless a clear, failsafe, and non-controversial testing protocol can be established. ...

• 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. ... (16th August 944) (Vatican archives).
• 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. ... 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 .
• The Shroud of Turin, a 14'3" long cloth that was alleged to have been the burial cloth of Jesus, first showed up in a small village in France in 1357. Roman Catholic scholars have attempted to minimize the importance of the shroud's having been missing for over 13 centuries, and some tried to establish its validity because it was said the features of the man plainly seen on the shroud was very like religious icons of Christ that can be traced back to the 6th century. While not an article of faith, it is generally believed this shroud is in Turin, Italy, and that chemical reactions caused the outline of Jesus' body to be super-imposed on the linen, thus giving an actual negative photograph of Jesus. ...
• Another interesting aspect of the Shroud of Turin came as I was reading the publication, THE MEDAL AND THE HOLY FACE put out by the Holy Face Association, Box 1, St. ...
• Sister Pierina was given a medal which on one side bore a replica of the Holy Shroud, with an inscription in Latin that, translated, reads "May, O Lord, the light of Thy countenance shine upon us. ...
• A 16th century Roman Catholic soldier, sent to persecute the Christians in the Waldensian Valleys, wrote to Rome that it was his great sorrow that he had not been able to travel the short distance to Turin to venerate the Holy Shroud. ...
• Pope Paul VI called the Shroud of Turin "the greatest relic in Christendom. " POST VATICAN II .
• The Shroud was publicly exhibited August 27 - October 8, 1978 and millions of visitors came to Turin to see it. In a March, 1978 article in the Catholic Digest, a lengthy explanation is given trying to explain the Shroud's whereabouts between the 1st century and 1354, when it was discovered in France. The comparison between the shroud and some ikons and images, and unsubstantiated legends from the 6th century are possible links. ...
• In 1984 scholars presented the Vatican with a proposal for radio-carbon dating. ...
• An article from Turin, Italy by Robert Suro, from the New York Times News Service and printed in THE OREGONIAN on 10/14/88 states that the Roman Catholic Church says tests show that the Shroud of Turin could not possibly be Jesus' burial cloth. Tests conducted independently by three laboratories concluded that the shroud cloth was created between 1260 and 1390. Archbishop Ballestrero of Turin said that they don't have any answers to explain how the image of Christ was created on the shroud. ...

• Talk:Shroud of Turin.
• What's the position of the Vatican on the shroud? The speech I linked to seems to suggest that he believes it's a matter for the science to determine the origin, and if the science concludes it's from the middle ages it's fine by them. ... As for vatican habits, they are really very explicit in considering it as Christ's linen, no doubt seems to be left after these words. In this sense, I don't read in it that the Church is really waiting for scientific investigations: whatever might scientists say, the Shroud is a religious symbol, and it will remain a symbol even if it will eventually reveal of different times. Looking into the "icon", as the Shroud is always defined as an "image", "inside it" and not "in it" are the religious meanings of this figure, so the Church sweetly invites scientists "to act with interior freedom and attentive respect for both scientific methodology and the sensibilities of believers". ...
• The Shroud of Turin has so much to teach us&mdash about human nature, about cult and the victim, about the weighting of evidence, about the psychology of fraud and the psychology of belief, about the value of pilgrimages in the medieval economy, about the nature of revealed religion itself. ...

• Removing the shroud of mystery.
• Click on this image of the Shroud of Turin to see a larger version. ...
• The Shroud of Turin doesn’t get out much. ... The attempt to clarify the identity of the crucified man whose silhouette is imprinted on the shroud, held by believers to be none other than Jesus Christ, has been avidly pursued by science during the rare moments that the Vatican allows it to be examined. ...
• Now an Israeli botanist and his colleagues have offered another clue to the Shroud’s mysterious origins, and they did it without ever coming into contact with the cloth itself. Instead, they used microscopic photographs taken by past researchers which depicted pollen grains recovered from the shroud, as well as impressions of bouquets of flowers that had been placed in the shroud. ...
• It has been known for a while that the most common pollen on the Shroud is from a thistle called Gundelia tourneforti, native to Israel for many millennia. ...
• Danin and Baruch’s research points out that two other flower species, Zygophyllum dumosum and Cistus creticus, are also represented by pollen on the Shroud. By overlapping the zones where these flowers are found, the researchers say, the origin of the Shroud can be determined. ...
• Botanical exploration of the Shroud began in 1973, when botanist Max Frei was allowed by church officials to obtain pollen traces from the shroud using a sticky tape to collect the grains. ... The Sudarium, reputed to be the face covering of the dead Jesus, is a very important relic in regard to the Shroud, because the pattern of bloodstains on the two correspond. “If you take a photo of bloodstains of the Sudarium, and the head of the shroud, they will cover each other and will match,” says Danin. “This is the physical evidence of the synchronicity of the Shroud and the Sudarium. Since the Sudarium was in the Cathedral of Orviedo since 760, this is where we can date the shroud back to. ” The sticky tape analysis of the Sudarium also yielded a scanty but significant two pollen grains from the flower Gundelia tourneforti, further correlating its origin with that of the Shroud. ...
• The question of being able to date the Shroud at least as far back as the Sudarium is important, because in recent times the authenticity of the Shroud has been severely challenged. In 1988, carbon-14 dating of the a fragment of the Shroud placed it between 1260 to 1390 AD. This led to conclusions that the shroud was certainly not associated with the period of Jesus. ... “Even if I’m not ready to say what the name was of the person who was in the shroud, I can bring it away from the word forgery, and the middle ages,” says Danin. ...

• 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. ...
• 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. ...

• Jesus Christ cloned from Turin Shroud.
• In a shock announcement this morning, Vatican scientists announced that the successful cloning of Our Lord Jesus Christ has been accomplished. ...
• After accepting that the Carbon-14 dating of the Shroud had given wildly inaccurate results, scientists agreed that the only sure way of determining the authenticity of the Shroud was to attempt to create a clone from the matter that formed the image of Jesus on the ancient cloth. ...
• We've just been told by a Vatican spokesperson that the cloning has been completed. As the equipment cools down, the cameras will be able to bring us the first pictures that will solve the enigma of the Turin Shroud. ...
• We're now being patched into the Vatican newsfeed, direct from the laboratory. ...

• Shroud of Turin Topics.
• I think the the truth about the Shroud of Turin is somewhere between the prima facie case that is a medieval fake relic and the ebullient claims of some who stretch science to argue that the images were miraculously induced and thus evidence of the Resurrection. ...
• Once a skeptic about the Shroud, I now think it is an authentic artifact of the burial of Jesus of Nazarethâ ”and therefore the earliest historical document we have about the day that he was crucified. ...
• Iâ ™m not sure what to make of the Shroud after many years of active study about it. I welcome your thoughts on the Shroud. ...
• Plant Images and Pollen Grains on the Shroud .
• Why We May Believe the Shroud is Not Medieval .
• Why We May Think the Shroud is Medieval .
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• Pilgrims were a source of revenue and people were flocking to Lirey to see the Shroud rather than nearby Troyes and its collection of relics. ... Why? Did he realize that others were voicing suspicions about his motives? Pierre claimed that his predecessor, Bishop Henri de Poitiers of Troyes conducted an inquest in which a painter had confessed to painting the Shroud. ... Pierre stated that Henri had the Shroud removed from the church because it was a fake, yet other documents dispute this. ... It is unlikely that it was ever sent to Clement as no properly signed or sealed copies of the document can be found in the Vatican or Avignon archives. ...
• One cannot say, however, that any of this proves that the Shroud is not medieval. ... And so, to understand this relic, to try and ascertain its authenticity, we must look at other evidence, evidence that may shed some light on the Shroudâ ™s provenance, evidence that contradicts a medieval origin. ...
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• (I should make note, I used to believe in the authenticity of the Shroud, but not presently).
• That said, I do not believe the Shroud is what people claim it is. ...
• Joe Nickel has decimated the Shroud Hoax. ...
• Well sure the shroud of Turin is a hoax but what about the Toilet Paper of Turin on which Jesus is reputed to have wiped his butt following the Last Supper? I've never found a refutation of this idea on the web so it must be true. ...
• There is certainly specific mention of the cloak (bet over by the guards) and other burial clothing (separate head piece, as well as the strips he was wrapped in), there is no mention or even hint at a shroud being used. ...
• Apologists, Creationists, Shroud of Turin folks, and Atlaneans all love radiocarbon dating. ...
• I was under the impression that the Vatican declared the shroud a fake when:.
• It's the Shroud of Turin, remember. ...
• The point is NOT whether the shroud of Turin is bogus or not. ... Was there previously an actual, real shroud of Turin that was copied by the aforementioned guy? Who knows?.
• The point of the shroud of Turin (and any relic whatsoever) is the symbolic value of it. ...
• The interesting point (in my case) is that I was a staunch believer in the Shroud of Turin. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is disproven by the Bible actually, but, it has been a great fundraiser for the Catholic Church. ...
• There's a book "Turin Shroud. In who's image?" by Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, which presents the hypothesis that the Turin shroud was an early experiment in photography by Leonardo Da Vinci. ...

• Shroud Of Turin Saved From Chapel Fire .
• TURIN, Italy (CWN) - Although a priceless Guarini chapel was destroyed in a fire in Turin's cathedral on Friday, heroic efforts by firefighters saved the Shroud of Turin from destruction in the blaze. ...
• The Guarini chapel, built almost 300 years ago specifically to house the shroud, was virtually destroyed. ...
• The Vatican has said Pope John Paul will bestow special citations upon the firefighters who risked life and limb to rescue the relic believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, bearing a miraculous image of his body after death. ... He used a sledgehammer to break the four layers of bulletproof glass protecting the silver box containing the linen shroud. ...
• It had previously been damaged in a fire in Chambery, France in 1353, but suffered no ill effects in the latest blaze, according a spokesman for the Turin Archdiocese. ...
• Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini of Turin said he plans to go ahead with a rare public viewing of the shroud planned for next year, declaring the safety of the shroud as an act of God.

• 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. ...
• The Shroud is an image of silence. ... The Shroud expresses not only the silence of death but also the courageous and fruitful silence of triumph over the transitory, through total immersion in God's eternal present. ...

• The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin Pt. ...
• A recreation of the shroud image morphed with a supposably historically accurate painting of Jesus Christ. ...
• Very early Asian print of Shroud, it is very famous in Asia and is stored there. ...
• Was the Shroud an early X-ray? Caused by the electric recoil of resurrection? This is an actual picture of the shroud in X-ray form, and there you have it, an actual skull shows up for some reason. ... The Shroud Of Turin is now kept at the Vatican in an air-tight case and can be viewed by the public, under what circumstances I am not sure off-hand. ...
• To this day no scientist has ever conclusively proved the origin of the image on the Shroud and are completely (admittedly) dumb-founded by it's existence. ...

• Mystery Of The Sacred Shroud .
• The mystery of the Shroud of Turin is examined in this fascinating documentary that asks: Is it a medieval hoax or the actual burial cloth used after Jesus' death? Richard Burton narrates. ...
• This special two-tape set includes "Do Not Be Afraid: The Life and Teachings of Pope John Paul II," which uses archival footage and an interview with the Pontiff to tell his inspirational story, along with "Do This in Memory of Me: The Christmas and Easter Liturgies," which offers the Pope presiding in the Vatican City and Rome and is narrated by James Fox. ...
• The Mysterious Man Of The Shroud .
• Hector Elizondo hosts this documentary look at the fabled Shroud of Turin and the latest attempts to solve the riddles surrounding what many believe to have been the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. ...
• Mystery Of The Sacred Shroud .
• The mystery of the Shroud of Turin is examined in this fascinating documentary that asks: Is it a medieval hoax or the actual burial cloth used after Jesus' death? Richard Burton narrates. ...
• This stirring investigation into the Shroud of Turin delves into one of the world's most fascinating mysteries as examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth. ...
• Jesus And The Shroud Of Turin .
• Hear from experts on both sides of the issue, and see scientific studies to verify the shroud's true age and origin, in this compelling documentary. ...
• Shroud Of Turin .
• One of the world's greatest mysteries is tackled when this program investigates the mysterious Shroud of Turin. Discovered in 1357, the Shroud has been believed to be Jesus Christ's burial garment, but what has new evidence discovered? 50 min.

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