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• HISTORY AND THE SHROUD.
• The Shroud has been the subject of veneration and curiosity throughout all its existence of over nineteen hundred years. ... Ian Wilson in "The Mysterious Shroud (Doubleday & Company, 1986, Garden City, N. ... ) has done a splendid job in presenting the best historical arguments and evidences for the presence of the Holy Shroud during the early centuries. ... Jude took the Holy Shroud and brought it to the city of Edessa, near Antioch, Turkey. ... Jude took the Shroud away from Jerusalem to prevent such a precious relic from being destroyed by the enemies of Christ.
• However, the scientists are certain that it has been copied from the Face of Jesus on the Holy Shroud. ... " (Vera-Icon) True image, because it is copied from the Shroud. ... Artists say that in most of them there is a striking resemblance between the Face on the mosaics and on the frescoes with the one of the Holy Shroud. Given such similarities it can be concluded that the Shroud existed, was held in veneration, and was well known by the people and artists in the early stages of Christian art.
• There are some good reliable records on the presence of the Shroud in the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries dealing with the "Mandylion," a cloth preserved in the city of Edessa, the same cloth that the tradition attributes to St. ... The Shroud was exposed in the Church of St. ... Helena, Constantinople, the Holy Shroud of Christ was preserved, and every Friday it was exposed for public veneration.
• The Shroud disappeared. ... " After a century, a family in France by the name of Geoffrey de Charny, announced that they were in possession of the Shroud. In 1357 the first public exposition of the Shroud in Europe takes place at Lirey, France. It was on the occasion of this exposition that Bishop Henry of Poitiers made a statement that the Shroud is fraudulent, because he felt it would have been impossible for such an obscure family as that of the Charny to have come into possession of such an invaluable relic. The statement of this Bishop has been used by those who refuse to believe in the authenticity of the Shroud and to prove that the Shroud is only the work of a very clever artist. So the argument continues; the question is still raised: "is this the true Shroud?" Many, disregarding all the scientific evidences in its favor, continue to say that it is the work of a clever artist.

• In 1988, the single sample removed from the Shroud for Carbon-14 dating indicated 13th or 14th century origin, and it was widely reported that the Shroud is a medieval artistic fake. ... In 1990, the Vatican repudiated the 1988 Carbon-14 dating conclusions, citing them as "strange" and called or further testing. ...
• Return to the Council for Study of the Shroud of Turin home page. ...

• On September 17th 2002, Norma Weller visited Rome on a special mission to present her work on the Turin Shroud to the International Research Centre on the Face of Christ, coincidentally arriving at a time of enormous importance concerning a crucial series of fine repairs and restorations in Turin by world textile expert Fleury-Lemburg during June and July on the reputed burial cloth of Jesus-Christ.
• This supports the findings of Norma Weller, and in addition, when her work was presented to Cardinal Angelini at the Vatican and Director of the Research Centre, he was greatly impressed, to the extent of introducing it to Padre Doctor Heinrich Pfeiffer S. ... , Professor of Christian Art History at the Pontifical Gregoriana University of Rome and member of the Papal Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, a great scholar and authority on the Turin Shroud who has confirmed with considerable conviction the importance of this discovery.

• Found on Shroud of Turin.
• JERUSALEM — Plant imprints and pollen found on the Shroud of Turin, revered by many as Jesus' burial shroud, support the premise that it originated in the Holy Land, two Israeli scientists said Tuesday. ...
• "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 botanists did not address the issue of the age of the linen cloth, which 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. ...
• 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 taken from the shroud are from plants found in Israel and neighboring countries, including the bean caper and the tumbleweed appearing on the shroud, according to Uri Baruch, an expert on pollen at the Israel Antiquities Authority. ...
• Danin and Baruch both refused to discuss the authenticity of the shroud, but said their findings show that it was very probably from the Holy Land. ...
• The Roman Catholic Church has never claimed the cloth as a holy relic, but it 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 next go on view in 2000, for Holy Year celebrations. ...

• Shroud of Turin History.
• French crusader in Constantinople, Robert De Clari, describes seeing the Shroud.
• First known public expositions of the Shroud, held full length by the Canons of Lirey.
• Margaret de Charney gives the Shroud to the House of Savoy.
• The Shroud is deposited in the Chapel of Chambery Castle.
• Fire in the Chapel of Chambery Castle damages the Shroud.
• Exhibited in Turin.
• The Shroud is moved to its permanent home in Turin at Cathedral of John the Baptist.
• Shroud first photographed by Secundo Pia.
• Shroud photographed by Giuseppe Enria, Pia’s findings were confirmed.
• Shroud is shown to members of special Scientific Commission.
• Shroud exhibited for media in Turin. ...
• United States conference of research on The Shroud of Turin.
• American investigators examine shroud.
• Vatican reports Shroud not authentic.
• Shroud is unharmed in fire that severely damages Cathedral in Turin.

• TURIN, Italy -- The burial cloth many believe shrouded Jesus Christ survived its second brush with fire in 465 years -- but officials said Saturday the gorgeous Baroque chapel that housed it suffered incalculable damage.
• Authorities were still assessing the impact of Friday's late-night fire at the San Giovanni Cathedral in Turin and its Guarini Chapel, home of the Shroud of Turin.
• The shroud in its silver urn was snatched from the flaming chapel by firefighters who hammered their way through four layers of bulletproof glass. But the flames devastated the shroud's marble-faced chapel, the wooden dome of the cathedral and much of the Royal Palace nearby.
• Photo/Associated Press The glass case that housed the shroud was shattered by firefighters who saved the shroud from the fire. ...
• Radio Vatican called it ''an apocalypse'' and recalled that the shroud had been saved from another fire in Chambery, France, more than 450 years ago. ''For the shroud, history repeats itself,'' it said.
• The shroud was Crusader booty taken from Constantinople to France in 1353. After it was scorched in the 1532 fire, it was taken to Turin. ...
• The restoration was in preparation for a rare public showing of the shroud scheduled for next year as part of the buildup to the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ.
• Residents of Turin watched, weeping as the landmark burned.
• Archbishop Giovanni Saldarini, the keeper of the shroud, confirmed Saturday that the cloth was intact and said the church would go ahead with the public viewing next year. He called the shroud's rescue a ''miracle. ...
• Vatican radio attributed its rescue to ''the courage and dedication of man. ...
• The Vatican has allowed scientists to do radiocarbon tests on the shroud and several have concluded that the linen cloth is a crude medieval fake.
• But for many Christians, the shroud is a visible, moving and faith-inspiring reminder of the crucifixion.

• from the careful analysis of the Shroud's textile fibers by Professor Raes the linen can be said to offer no inconsistency with known weaves of the first century AD. ... Max Rrei provides evidence that at some stage before its known post-fourteenth peregrinations in France and Italy the Shroud was in Palestine and Turkey" (Wilson 206).
• Scientists have shown that the Shroud is not a painting as there are no pigments present. "The absence of colored powder, of cementation of fibers, and of capillarity is evidence that the Shroud image was not made by ordinary painting with liquid paints" (Scavone 53). ... So, how were the images formed? In "Riddle of the Ages," an article in People Weekly on April of 1998, it is stated that, "Seeking to resolve the issue in 1978, authorities allowed an international group of scientists to analyze the shroud using modern technology" (119). ...
• Carbon-14 (C-14) testing, which is used by scientist, to date ancient artifacts, has been used on the Shroud of Turin. ... "The effort is part of a Vatican program to have science scrutinize holy relics" ("Mystery" 12). C-14 testing has been believed to be successful in the past on artifacts that had been uncovered after remaining untouched for many thousands of years, however, the Shroud has been handled over the years. ...
• "Other C-14 experts believed that the cloth could be cleansed of its contamination and the test would give an accurate date for the Shroud. ...

• Turin Archdiocese to open shroud display earlier for youth.
• VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With World Youth Day in mind, the Archdiocese of Turin moved up the opening of the jubilee year exhibition of the city's most famous religious item. ...
• The Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be Christ's burial cloth, will go on display Aug. ...
• 14, to view the shroud either before or after the week of youth-centered events, which ends Aug. ...
• ``Since World Youth Day this year is part of the jubilee, seeing the shroud can be a moment of faith in this great experience for young people,'' Msgr. ...
• ``We hope that at least those people who pass through Turin on the way to Rome, those from France or northern Europe, will stop and see the shroud. ...
• To make bookings easier, the Turin Archdiocese set up an online reservation system at www. ... Tickets can be sent via e-mail or regular mail or picked up directly in Turin upon arrival. ...
• The Shroud of Turin was last on display in 1998, when Pope John Paul II visited it. ...

• 600+ Years of Fakery: The Shroud of Turin.
• But every year as Easter approaches, the "Shroud of Turin" is trotted out in news stories speculating about whether the Shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus. ...
• The usual format of these seasonal articles is to report on some religionist's unshakable conviction that the Shroud is genuine. ...
• With essentially only one side of the issue presented, readers are led to believe the Shroud may be authentic. The Vatican is always careful not to assert authenticity but not to deny it either. ...
• Readers of this annually rehashed propaganda would be better served if the media told the truth about the Shroud, which is this (and it is only part of the evidence against the Shroud): .
• The Shroud first appeared around 1355 in Lirey, France. In 1389, Bishop Pierre d'Arcis of that diocese wrote to Pope Clement VII objecting strenuously to the treatment of the Shroud as genuine. He said an official of the church at Lirey had, "falsely and deceitfully, being consumed with the passion of avarice, and not from any motive of devotion but only of gain, procured for his church a certain cloth cunningly painted, upon which by a clever sleight of hand was depicted the twofold image of one man, that is to say, the back and the front, he falsely declaring and pretending that this was the actual shroud in which our Savior Jesus Christ was enfolded in the tomb,. ...
• There is much more scientific evidence, all of it fully supporting the medieval origin of the Shroud as an artistic creation. ... One of the things they will find is a negative photograph showing the face on the Shroud -- an exact duplicate created by Nickell as an experimental rubbing image from a bas relief. Making a fake Shroud was no problem for a medieval artist. ...
• For example, on June 26, 1998, the Minneapolis Star tribune, in its "Q & A on the news" section, responded to a reader's question as to whether any miracles had been attributed to the Shroud. ... It reported that after the Shroud was saved from a 1997 fire, the Pope said, "A miracle. ...
• Nowhere did the Pope acknowledge the testimony of two of his own church's bishops -- who were there when the Shroud first appeared -- that it is fake "attested by the artist who had painted it. ...
• Meanwhile, the Vatican regularly puts this "holy icon" on display, careful not to claim too much for it but equally careful not to discourage veneration. ...

• John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Since as early as the 14th Century, m any have thought the mysterious image of a crucified man (complete with blood stains consistent with crucifixion wounds) visible on as a "photographic" negative image on the fibers of the shroud to be that of Jesus of Nazareth! Some even consider the shr oud to be one of the earliest images of the crucified prophet; the basis for subsequent artistic renderings of Jesus that gave rise to the modern conception of the physical appearance of Jesus Christ. ...
• Could this be the actual burial shroud of Jesus? While there has been suspicions of forgery since it's early days, no one really knows for certain. Despite this, the "Shroud of Turin" has been a highly prized and protected religious artifact for centuri es. Rare public displays of the shroud draw immense crowds of religious pilgrims seeking to be blessed by the Shroud's fabled holy powers. The Vatican is already preparing for public displays slated for 1998! .
• Scientific tests have given rise to two competing theories of the actual age of the Shroud of Turin. The most widely accepted theory resulting from a 1987 scientific inquiry via radio-carbon dating condemns the Shroud as a fake-- placing it's age at appr oximately 750 years old (probably forged by a local clergyman hoping to win believers). ...
• Despite these discouraging findings, new studies being conducted by famed institutions such as the Sedov Biopolymer Research Laboratory in Moscow have yielded results dating the the Shroud much ealier than previously thought. ... As mor e results of these ongoing studies are published, the Shroud may prove to be, if nothing else, at least old enough to be the death shroud of Jesus of Nazareth. ...
• Does the Vatican think it's Jesus? As the Vatican wishes to discourage worshipping of the Shroud as well as to dispel rumors of special powers, it has remianed ambiguous in it's comments concerning the Shroud of Turin. ... Nonetheless, the Shroud remains a highly venerated religious relic in the Catholic Church. ...

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• Thousands Venerate Copy of Turin Shroud in Ternopil .
• ua) – Ternopil -- Thousands of faithful came to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in western Ukrainian Ternopil to venerate the Minsk (Belarus) copy of the Shroud of Turin, which stayed there from 25 December 2003 to 19 January 2004. The copy of the Shroud of Turin has been in Ukraine since 28 September 2002. ... Simon and Helen, in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, which is home to the copy of the Shroud of Turin, extended the stay of the copy in Ukraine to 15 May 2004. ...

• Symposium on the Holy Shroud.
• John Paul II calls for recovery of the true spirit of Vatican II - AD2000 Report.
• Symposium on the Holy Shroud - Zenit News Service.
• A symposium to study and reflect about scientific research regarding the Holy Shroud was held in March in the city of Turin. Encouraged by the Diocesan Commission for the exhibition of the Holy Shroud, more than 40 experts gathered at the Italian city to discuss several aspects of the Sindone - considered the shroud that covered Jesus' body after his death - in the light of the latest research.
• Results are to be given to the Archbishop of Turin, official custos of the Holy Shroud, who also attended. The symposium had as its main theme "The Sindone of Turin. ...
• The event consisted of four main sessions, each of them focusing on crucial themes about the Shroud. The first session discussed how did the image come to be printed on the shroud. ... A more historic point of view was considered during the third session, with discussion of the relationship between the Gospel and the shroud, as well as historical data documenting the existence of the shroud through the centuries. ...
• Over the last years, several studies have increasingly validated the authenticity of the Holy Shroud. In 1998, a group of experts from three different countries gathered to analyse the shroud, from their different scientific disciplines, with the latest scientific equipment. These scientists concluded that there was a two million against one probability that the Shroud was authentic. And in August last year, botany professor Avinoam Danin of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem concluded that the origin of the Shroud of Turin was Jerusalem after an analysis of pollen grains and plant images on the cloth. ...
• A 1983 study showed that both the Shroud and the face cloth - the latter of which is documented from the First Century and kept in the Cathedral of Oviedo in Spain since the 8th Century - were stained with type AB blood.

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• Copy Of Turin Shroud Returns to Lviv .
• ua) – Lviv – On 22 February 2004, the copy of the Shroud of Turin which has been in Ukraine for almost 17 months, returned to western Ukrainian Lviv. ... The organizers of the shroud’s visit to Ukraine believe it has fully performed its mission of uniting people. According to the press service of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), the shroud will be in St. ... Until that time, prayer services will be held and people will have an opportunity to learn about the history of the original Shroud of Turin. “I think the shroud will help us benefit from the Great Fast Lent , because on the first day of this spiritually important period in the life of a Christian it will arrive in our church,” said Fr. Roman Kravchyk, mitred-archpriest of the UGCC and head of the organizing committee for transporting the shroud to Ukraine. ... ” It is planned that from 18 April to 16 May, the copy of the shroud will be in northwestern Ukrainian Lutsk. ...

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• Their study has been supported by the research of Ray Rogers, a retired chemist from Los Alamos National Laboratories and former member of the STURP team of American scientists that examined the Shroud in 1978. ... The reported age is almost certainly invalid for the date the cloth was produced," he writes in a scientific review of the methods applied to the Shroud. "At this point, we definitely urge the Vatican to do more C-14 dating using the material they must have collected from beneath the 30 patches," said Benford. ... com Subject: RE: Shroud of Turin Carbon Dating has proven this to be a fake. This Carbon test was approved by the Vatican, and it showed it was from the 16th century. ... com/news/briefs/20020819/shroud. ... com Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:32:31 +0800 Subject: Shroud of Turin > Hello everyone! > > Maybe you'd like to try and see > > www. shroud. ... shroud. ...

• What is Wrong with the Carbon 14 tests on the Shroud of Turin?.
• One cannot say definitively that the carbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin has been proven wrong, but now with new year 2002 information one can honestly say that the dates are no longer reliable indicators of the Shroud's age.
• According to the 1988 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. ...
• A headline in the New York Times read: "Test Shows Shroud of Turin to be Fraud. ... One of the radiocarbon dating scientists from Oxford stated on public television: "We have shown the Shroud to be a fake. ...
• But, to many people, the carbon 14 test results only made the Shroud all the more puzzling and all the more fascinating. There was, after all, a preponderance of other scientific and historical evidence that argued that the Shroud was really much older. ...
• 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. ...
• 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. ...

• On June 15, 1999, CNN posted an article on a new discovery about the Shroud of Turin. ...
•    Though many people don't know this, the shroud also contains imprints of plants and even a coin. Two Israeli scientists discovered pollen on the shroud that supports its origination from the Holy Land.
• "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. ...
• In the 14th century, a crusader  brought the shroud to France.   It has been enshrined since 1578 in Turin, Italy. ...
• Scientists tested small sections of the shroud in 1988 with the Vatican's approval. ...   Those tests have been rendered by scientists, the carbon dating is now accurate, when taking into account the fire that the Shroud survived.
• The plant images embedded in the Shroud were identificed by Danin as the bean caper (Zygophyllum dumosum), which grows only in Israel, Jordan, and Egypt's Sinai desert.   Aside from that, there are two other plant images on the Shroud, the Rock Rose (Cistus creticus), which is natural to the Middle East, and tumbleweed (Goundelia tournefortii). ...
• The shroud also contains the imprint of a coin that was minted during the reign of Tiberius, the Roman Emperor who ruled at the time of the Crucifixion.

• on Vatican II - Sacrosanctum concilium @catholic-pages. ... on the shroud of Turin. If it is blood on the shroud ,soon there will be the real possibility of this happening. Carbon dating has unknowingly proven the shroud to be of the correct time period. How is this possible,you ask?The only images known to be comparable to the one left on the shroud are those left on the building walls by the victim's of the atomic bombs in Japan. ... Yes, cloning goes against what the church believes in,and this theory of mine may never come into being(I believe God would not need such a silly trick),but I also feel that other poeple may believe otherwise and the shroud should be ,now, closely guarded and protected so that this theory will not be put into practice. ... i do not understand any of this! what is the vatican 2 ur website is sooo gay Contributed by geeza mcdonald (em_rox_8@hotmail. ...

• THE SHROUD OF TURIN.
• The shroud of Turin is an intriguing relic and it turns out to be one of those cases where truth is far more interesting than the myth. And clearly I've already tipped my hand here, but seriously most intelligent and unbiased debate now centers on the strong conclusion that the Shroud of Turin is a manufactured icon, albeit meticulously crafted. Indeed the official Vatican interpretation has always been that it's merely symbolic although many Christians and others of faith sincerely disagree. ...
• In case you don't know the shroud of Turin is purported by some to be the original linen cloth used to wrap Jesus Christ's body in after he was removed from the cross some 2000 years ago. ...
• The actual image is an optical negative, and it wasn't until the shroud was photographed and the negative viewed that it gained its modern notoriety because the Christ image became apparent. ...
• Photo-positive image of the Shroud including burn marks from a Church fire.
• The first and perhaps most serious obstacle to the legitimacy of the shroud is the physical shape of the image. ... Conversely if the shroud was wrapped loosely enough to catch the indented parts of the body and face then the image would have to be distorted, rendering a very un-human looking image to the casual observer. ...
• It is acknowledged that the image which appears on the Shroud of Turin is caused by oxidation to the upper fibrils of the cloth (Allen, 1995a:21-35). ... The focussed image of a sun-illuminated corpse or body-cast will produce a shroud-like image after eight to twenty four hours of exposure, which makes use of an optically clear bi-convex quartz lens. ... In this regard, these experimental images, which are produced by use of materials, apparatus and chemicals which collectively are known to have been available to both Islamic and Christian scholars by at least the thirteenth century may be safely compared with those found on the Shroud of Turin, addressing as they do, each and every image characteristic as identified by the STURP committee in 1977. As is the case with the Shroud of Turin, the images produced by this method have a slightly top-lit quality and display visual distortions in keeping with spherical aberration as caused by the agency of a lens. The Shroud of Turin and the Singlet Oxygen Fallacy PROF NICHOLAS P. ...
• Personally I wouldn't put too much into the radiocarbon dating for something as recent as the Shroud because the error factor is too spread; if it was a million years old - different story. ...
• However for religious followers, being superstitious by nature, the Shroud essentially takes on that perforce role. Since religious beliefs can't be disproved the faithful continue to flock to view the Shroud, believing it to be a powerful symbol of Christianity. And still after several hundred years the Shroud fulfills it's role bringing in the parishioners remarkably well, making it one of the best investments the Church ever made. ...

• Replica of Shroud of Turin arrives in Kyiv for Holy Week.
• The relic, a Vatican-sanctioned replica of the Shroud of Turin, arrived in Kyiv from Lviv during Holy Week according to the Gregorian calendar. ...
• After it was completed, the replica was placed on the original shroud in order to bring it into physical contact with the original markings. The original shroud, found in the Italian city of Turin and displayed very rarely, is said to be the cloth that the biblical figure Joseph of Aramithea gave for the burial of Jesus after He was crucified.
• The original Shroud of Turin was last publicly displayed during celebrations of the millennium of the birth of Jesus in 2000.
• The original was first discovered in the city of Turin in 1694.
• Thousands of believers crowded the Kyiv train station to greet the arrival of the shroud, which was then paraded to St. ...
• In Lviv, hundreds of thousands of all faiths had viewed the shroud over the last seven months, which the Den story said had led to a closer kinship among the faithful of various Christian confessions in that part of Ukraine.
• On May 11 the copy of the shroud was scheduled to be moved to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of St. ...

• SHROUD OF TURIN COMMEMORATIVE 1898 REPRODUCTION .
• 1930) with lacred Vatican seal. ...
• Holy Shroud on cloth. 27x10´ (70x26cms) adquired at Turin Cathedral. ...
• Holy Face from Shroud on cloth. ... 5´ (26x22cms) adquired at Turin Cathedral .
• Holy Face from Shroud (photo) by Celine Martin (Carmel de Lisieux) 1904 with Benediction from Pope Pius X. ...
• Lithographs: Holy Faces from Shroud of Turin by : Ariel Agemian 16x12¨. ...
• Medals: Frontal Image of Shroud of Turin(silver); Holy Face from Shroud 1978  Conmemorative; Holy Face from Shroud by Fernando Bassani; Holy Face from Shroud by Brunner (2medals with the Holy Face devotion by Sr. ...
• on  Holy Shroud of Turin  et al. ...

• New Date for Shroud of Turin.
• An analysis of pollen grains and plant images taken from the Shroud of Turin, believed by millions of Christians to be the burial shroud of Jesus, places the cloth's origin in or near Jerusalem before the 8th century, scientists said. ...
• Tests trace Turin Shroud to Jerusalem before 700 AD - by William K Stevens St. ...
• the Shroud of Turin, believed by many Christians to be the burial shroud of .
• 1390 and to conclude that the shroud was most likely a medieval forgery. ...
• The rectangular linen shroud, which bears faint traces of a man's face, is one .
• Vatican, after the 1988 tests, said it appeared to be inauthentic. ...
• flowers and other plant parts apparently were placed on the shroud, leaving .
•   The shroud has been kept in Turin, .
• Both the Sudarium and the shroud appear to carry type AB blood stains, and .
• stains in the two cloths provide clear evidence that the shroud originated .
• cloth, while the new one involves the whole shroud and compares with a cloth .
• edge of the shroud, he said, and carbon could have been added to the cloth, .

• 2625 Readiris Clean Clean 6 pt 6 pt 0 3 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Visiting Professor presents evidence on Shroud of Turin.
• Wiebe, professor and chair of the philosophy department at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, says he is convinced of the I authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, believing that it is the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
• A large crowd gathered to hear Wiebe's recent lecture on "The Shroud of Turin: Authenticity and Significance for Theology," part of the Catholic Studies Lecture Series at St. ... During the lecture, Wiebe presented numerous facts in defence of the shroud's authenticity.
• The shroud, currently in the auspices of the Vatican, is widely believed to be the burial shroud of Christ, though many others claim that is not possible. ... 5 feet), the shroud has now been placed in a climate­-controlled urn. The chapel of the Turin cathedral, in Turin, Italy, where the shroud is kept, is constantly under surveillance.
• The shroud has only been displayed five times this century, the last being in the jubilee year, 2000, at which time Wiebe visited the relic. Having studied the shroud for almost 20 years, it is only in the last few years that he has been convinced of its authenticity.
• The largest burden of proof relied on by those who do not believe the shroud is authentic, is the Carbon 14 dating done in three separate labs in 1988. The carbon dating conclusions say the shroud only dates back to somewhere between 1260-1390. ...   He listed numerous instances where the shroud is depicted in art prior to.
• the 13th century, along with the tradition of a shroud in existence from the early centuries after Christ's death and resurrection.
• Wiebe points out that the samples of the shroud used in the carbon dating process were from a corner of the cloth that had been handled during public exhibitions, and which also does not contain any part of the victim's image. ...
• Noting that the evidence "is impressive, but not conclusive," Wiebe laid out a number of theories that support the shroud's authenticity, while encouraging the crowd to investigate the facts for themselves.
• A significant piece of evidence that led to Wiebe's own belief in the shroud's authenticity, is the presence of pollen and images from flowers that are unique to Israel, and specifically to the Jerusalem area.

• SHROUD OF TURIN .
• In 1988 the vatican had scientific tests carried out on the shroud of turin at three separate and independant institutions which specialized in carbon dating. These tests proved conclusively that the shroud could not not date any earlier than a. ... The vatican published the results on 13 october, the same day of the year that De Molay had been crucified. ...
• It must be noted that the vatican has always denied that the shroud is a holy relic. ...
• The same cloth which is now reffered to as the shroud of turin. ...
• The shroud that de Molay was wrapped in was taken from the Paris temple of the Knight Templar. Some fifty years later, in 1357, the shroud was placed on public display at Livey. The image of de Molay on the shroud are very clear. ...
• SHROUD OF TURIN .

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