Turin shroud
I went to a talk last night by Fr Martin Haigh, a Benedictine monk from Ampleforth who has studied the Turin shroud for 50 years. There is no time now, nor do I have sufficient knowledge, to go into all the arguments for and against it being the shroud which covered the body of Christ in the tomb after the crucifixion. Fr Martin showed us a DVD which he had made on the subject and invited us to make up our own minds. What was remarkable was seeing the image of the negative of the first photograph taken of the shroud in 1898 next to the image on the shroud (apologies for not being able to display the images on this blog but you can see them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin). It is extraodinary that the outlines of the face could have been transposed onto the shroud in the first place but even more extraodinary what they reveal when the mirror image is reversed once more. This shroud is usually only displayed once every 30 years in Turin but the current Pope has ordered that it should next be exhibited in 2010.
posted by Whispering Walls at 9:03 am
3 Comments:
I think we all want to believe it is the shroud that covered the body of Christ. And I know very well that very strange paranormal things do happen in life.
I had a feeling it was shown to be C1500 by carbon dating. The explanation was given some years ago that the bodily fluids secerted after death act like printers ink. But then, I'm a Scottish Presbyterian, and we don't believe in anything but death and the hellfire & brimstone that awaits us all.....
Hi Ellee and KL - carbon dating was done to part of it in 1988 which showed that it dated to the late thirteenth/early fourteenth century but people say that the piece which was tested was in fact a repair to the original cloth. No more testing has been done.
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