![]() “While the Shroud of Turin shows both a double body image and human bloodstains, the Sudarium of Oviedo only shows human bloodstains consistent with the blood principally coming out from the mouth and nose,” Fanti tells me. He has also dated the Shroud to the time of Jesus, debunking the flawed carbon-14 testing conducted in 1988. In 2012, Fanti concluded that an electrical charge in the form of radiation is what likely caused the man’s image to be imprinted on the Shroud. Topping my list is Giulio Fanti of Padua University. Having written about it for years, I have forged relationships with some of the most renowned experts, including Russ Breault, president of the Shroud of Turin Education Project Inc., and Barrie Schwortz, who founded, the first and most comprehensive Shroud site. My own keen interest in the Shroud led me to visit Turin in 2010 and again in 2015, the last two occasions when the Shroud was on public display. This is highly unusual because most crucifixion victims were left on the cross for days and the bones were later deposited in common graves.īennett adds that the “new research establishes approximately 20 points of correlation, which more than satisfies the standards of proof used by most judicial systems around the world, which require only 8 to10.” Jesus was the only person in recorded history to have been crowned with thorns before crucifixion.īennett explains as well that the Shroud and the Sudarium are consistent with Jewish burial customs of Jesus’ day:Īnother important matter is that the cadaver that was wrapped by both the Sudarium and the Shroud suffered death by crucifixion, but was afforded a Jewish burial. For example, both linens show bloodstains on the head, in approximately the same position, that were formed by sharp objects, similar to what thorns would produce. Bennett, who has been studying the Sudarium since 1997, tells me that,Īlthough Miñarro stops short of linking the two cloths to Jesus, ample research has yielded staggering evidence. The study’s conclusion was no surprise to Sudarium expert Janice Bennett, author of Sacred Blood, Sacred Image: The Sudarium of Oviedo, New Evidence for the Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin (2001). “Logic requires that we conclude that we are speaking of the same person.” “We have come to a point where it seems absurd to suggest that ‘by happenstance’ all of the wounds, lesions and swelling coincides on both cloths,” said the center’s president, Jorge-Manuel Rodríguez. ![]() Indeed, the Sudarium and the Shroud covered the same person, as Juan Manuel Miñarro, the author of a study sponsored by the Spanish Center of Sindonology, recently concluded. This order is logical if the “man in the Shroud” was in fact Christ, who would have been wrapped in the linen Shroud days before the electrical event (see below) that accompanied his resurrection and resulted in the human image. “Blood first, image second” is a mantra of Shroud researchers. ![]() The third mystery is related to the second: Blood from the crucified man penetrated the cloth, as one would expect, but also preceded the impression of the man’s image. ![]() Second, what is the substance constituting the image, which can be scraped away with a razor blade? The substance is undetermined - all man-made materials have been ruled out - and only rests on top of the cloth it does not penetrate the cloth’s linen fibers. For brevity’s sake, I will only scratch the surface (so to speak).įirst among the major mysteries is how the image was made. The Shroud, the most studied, analyzed, and tested religious relic in the world, has spawned a vast, global field of scientific study, called “sindonology,” but still baffles scientists. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but clearly seen on the body of the crucified man in the Shroud are gruesome markings consistent with the Gospel accounts of Christ’s Passion. Like the crucified Jesus in Gospel accounts, the man in the Shroud had no broken bones. On closer examination, you can spot bruises (from beatings?) on his face, knees (from falling?), and the back of his shoulders (from carrying a heavy cross?), and a large bloody mark (from a spear?) in his side. Other markings are compatible with what could have been a crown of thorns. You can count over 100 whip marks, possibly from scourging by Roman flagra, and identify on his wrists and feet obvious wounds that could have been from large spikes. ![]()
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