Shroud

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DICK JONES
Pope John Paul prayed before the controversial Turin Shroud Sunday
and asked the scientific community to keep an open mind as they try
to unravel the mystery of whether it could have been Christ's burial
cloth. The Pope repeated the Roman Catholic Church's stand that
belief in the authenticity of the cloth was not a matter of faith and
it was not the church's role to make a definitive ruling. 

MCGILL
Shroud of Turin

"The Shroud of Turin, an ancient piece of linen bearing the image of a 
man, is believed by many people to be the actual burial cloth of Jesus 
Christ.  The shroud, 4.34 m (14 ft 3 in) long and 1.09 m (3 ft 7 in) 
wide, can be traced through documentation back to 1354, but its history 
before that date is obscure.  Since 1578 it has been preserved and 
venerated in the cathedral of Turin, Italy.  Photographed for the first 
time in 1898, the image on the shroud (of the front and back of a 
crucified man about 2 m/6 ft tall) was revealed to be negative rather 
than positive.  Details of the biblical account of Christ's 
burial--specifically the anointing of the body--conflict with the natural 
possibility of an imprint such as that on the Shroud of Turin, and 
Vatican-sponsored scientific tests conducted in 1988 indicated that the 
shroud itself dates no earlier than 1260." 

Copyright 1995 by Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.

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