Magazine for May 2009
Cathedral News
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There is at present (until May 11th) at the Cathedral an exhibition called The Resurrection and the Turin Shroud. I have been to Turin many times, though you can’t really see the shroud properly there. I find it all quite amazing. What is never in doubt is that it is the shroud of a crucified man. The blood is real. and the wounds in the places we have read about in the gospels. No-one, even today has been able to produce a similar negative image. No-one has ever been able to say how it was produced. Pollen grains and the weave of the cloth place its origin in the Middle East, and consistent with Biblical times. Its significance was not able to be understood until 150 years ago, when people saw photographic negatives. I could say so much more….. |
 The Shroud of Turin |
Carbon dating about 15 years ago appeared to show that it was made in the 13th century, but that has now been called into doubt as the area of the Shroud used for testing – for obvious reasons an unimportant area - is now known to have been where it was repaired in medieval times.
There have over the centuries been many attempts to forge such relics, all crude, pathetically obvious and instantly rejectable. But the Turin shroud is different. Everyone agrees about that.
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Ruth Smith