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Who Is the Man of the Holy Shroud Tri SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ON THE SHROUD OF TURIN DISPLAY INCLUDES Full-size Framed Replica of the Shroud of Turin Photographic Negative of the Shroud of Turin Forensic Model of the Man of the Shroud The Shroud of Turin contains many types of scientific evidence that provide information about its history and environmental Replica Instruments of the Passion: journey. The human blood on the Shroud is Type AB. This rare blood type matches the stains on another known relic, Crucifixion Nails the Sudarium of Oviedo, which many believe to be the cloth that covered the face of Jesus as he was taken down from the Roman Lance cross. In addition to sharing the same blood type, forensic Roman Flagrum experts have identified blood stains that perfectly match on both cloths. This is significant because the Sudarium has been in Oviedo, Spain since the year 611, so any point of contact between the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo would have occurred before the seventh century. EXHIBIT TOURS Image credit American Confraternity of the Holy Shroud Exhibits tours by appointment. There are numerous To schedule a tour: specific species of plant [email protected] pollens on the Shroud that place it in or near 318-221-5296 the city of Jerusalem, Constantinople, and western Europe, all locations that align with the historical journey scholars believe to be CATHEDRAL OF accurate for the cloth. Image credit American Confraternity of the Holy Shroud PARISH AND SCHOOL sjbcathedral.org A specific soil Cathedral of St. John Berchmans sample from limestone has been identified on the Shroud of Podcast Turin – Travertine WHO IS THE MAN Aragonite – found Who is the Man of the Shroud? in only a few places manoftheshroud.wordpress.com in the Middle East, OF THE SHROUD? including the Old Apple iTunes Store City of Jerusalem. Cathedral of St. John Berchmans Image credit American Confraternity of the Holy Shroud The “Who is the Man of the Shroud” display is Shreveport, Louisiana part of the larger Museum of the Holy Shroud. www.museumoftheholyshroud.net What is the THE SHROUD OF TURIN THE SHROUD’S SHROUD OF TURIN? RESEARCH PROJECT HISTORICAL JOURNEY This is a 14-1/2 foot strip of linen cloth that bears the image of a man who appears One of the most mysterious to have been crucified, severely beaten with a specific kind of whip known as a features of the Shroud is that Roman flagrum, who was capped with a there is 3-D information on it. In “crown” of thorns, and who bears a single 1976, researchers discovered that piercing spear wound to the right side of a photograph of the Shroud of the chest. Besides the mysterious image, Turin, when imaged by the NASA there is human blood on the cloth, water VP-8 Analyzer, displayed unique stains, scorch marks, and many other characteristics of dimensionality. bits of scientific evidence that have been This indicated that the image on studied from every academic discipline. the Shroud was no painting or The man depicted in the Shroud of Turin photograph, and this discovery Many historians have proposed human hands” in Edessa known bears all of the unique wounds recorded led to a major research effort timelines for the Shroud of Turin, as the Mandylion. In 944, the in only one person of history. unlike any other in the history of relying upon records that, Byzantine Emperor besieged the relic study. of course, do not refer to the cloth city of Edessa in order to gain The Shroud, which many faithful credit American Confraternity of the Holy Shroud by the name it now bears. custody of this second image Christians believe to be the burial cloth of “not made by human hands.” By Jesus Christ described in all four Gospel So what would have happened to 944 both of these cloths were in accounts, has an undisputed historical the Shroud after the Resurrection? Constantinople. record that goes back to 1355, when it There are a few documents which went on public display in Lirey, France. give us some indication of its With certainty, it can be said that History documents that it survived a travels. this cloth was in the Byzantine major fire in Chambery, France in 1532, capital of Constantinople where and that it was shortly thereafter repaired In 44 A.D., there was a persecution witnesses saw it, then in France by the Poor Clares. Furthermore, history in Jerusalem and St. Peter by the mid-fourteenth century, documents that this Shroud has been in traveled to Antioch. Antioch fell and in Turin, Italy, since 1578. Photo by Barrie Schwortz the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in to the Persians in 540 and soon Its placement in history prior Turin, Italy, since 1578. thereafter an “Image not made to Constantinople is the subject by human hands” appeared in of much historical inquiry and the town of Camuliana, likely ongoing discussion, as well as its taken there by the Patriarch of so-called “Missing Years” of 1204- Antioch, Ephraemius. The image 1355. The FIRST PHOTOGRAPH in Camuliana was appropriated by the Byzantine Emperor Much of the current historical In 1898, amateur photographer and taken to the capital city of scholarship focuses on the “Missing Secondo Pia took the first Constantinople in the year 574. Years” as a way of documenting its photograph of the Shroud Once in Constantinople the image whereabouts following the fall of of Turin, revealing to the was given the name Constantinople at the end of the world the detailed image of In 1978, a team of scientists • The image was created a process “The Image of God Incarnate”. Fourth Crusade. undertook the only comprehensive not reproducible with current the man of the Shroud. The There is also historical reference Image credit American Confraternity photographic negative revealed examination of the Shroud of Turin technologies of a second image “not made by of the Holy Shroud more detail than visible to to have ever been permitted. Over the naked eye, and launched five days in October 1978, this team • The man of the Shroud is what has now been more than performed numerous tests on the forensically and anatomically perfect a century of investigation. To cloth, and employed a variety of • There is a large puncture wound DATING THE SHROUD OF TURIN date, the image on the cloth disciplines, including chemistry, visible in the left wrist and at the feet cannot be explained by any botany, biology, hematology, and known process – in the current physics, as well as photography • There is blood flow at the head An effort in 1988 to date the Shroud of Turin using Carbon-14 dating age or any previous age. and other imaging techniques. The and neck consistent with numerous methods produced a date of 1260-1390, which would seem to place Shroud of Turin Research Project small punctures the cloth’s origin as medieval. However, numerous scientific experts, At a minimum, this is an icon determined the following: in peer-reviewed publications, agree that the protocol for the testing of the Passion of Jesus Christ. • There is a large piercing wound in was not followed, and resulted in a finding that cannot be assumed to At most, it is the authentic • The image is not a photograph the right side of the chest be correct. The samples for the 1988 testing were all taken from the or painting – it contains no dyes or burial cloth of Jesus Christ, • Physical evidence of scourging upper left corner of the Shroud, an area known to be contaminated with an image formed at the pigments by the sixteenth century repair of the Poor Clares, as well as possible time of the Resurrection. credit American Confraternity of the Holy Shroud contamination by human handling through the centuries. .
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