Posted on 04/19/2015 5:52:09 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Shroud of Turin will be displayed for the first time in five years on Sunday. More than a million people have signed up to view one of Christianity's most celebrated relics.
Pilgrims believe the Shroud of Turin, measuring 4.3 meters (14 feet) in length, was the cloth used to bury Jesus Christ.
The most-talked about piece of linen in history, the shroud imprinted with an image of a man who appears to have been crucified, will go on display from April 19 until June 24 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in the north of Italy.
Public viewings of the cloth were last held in 2010.
"Many pilgrims who had already seen the shroud in past showings come back, even though some saw it just five years ago," Turin's archbishop Cesare Nosiglia said on Saturday. "That means there is a fundamental need in people's hearts to renew this incredible experience that they had the first time they saw it."
Nosiglia said people of all religious denominations will come to see the cloth, not just Christians.
"Even non-believers will come. It's an occasion that brings everybody together and aims to give a precise response to the violence in this world. It tells us that the way to build a fairer world is not violence, but love," he said.
Pope Francis will view the cloth on June 21 as he makes an overnight trip to the area of Turin, which will include private time with relatives.
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This is something I would like to do before I die...God willing.
What is really interesting about the Shroud is that the more they look at it the more they find and the more they find the more they can’t explain it as a medieval forgery.
Us too...we want to see it, too.
A truly fascinating relic.
Scripture indicates that the head covering used was not a part of the linen cloth with which He was wrapped but with the more traditional head covering
John 20:…6And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7and the face-cloth which had been on His head,, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.
John 11:…42"I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me." 43When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." 44The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
Possibly a head covering, then the entire shroud....enough fluid leakage to stain both....
As far as I’m concerned this image was created at the very moment of our Lord’s Resurrection.
If one looks at the image one does not see a man lying down but a man standing up....in mid air.
Yes, swordmaker. He posted on another similar thread.
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