Apparently an amount of end-end spectrum UV light (34 thousand billion watts worth - lots of zeros there) which no modern technology can approach. It is not idolatry to be moved and awed by an evident fingerprint of God nor amused at some scientists’ desperate attempts to explain it away. Of course, a finger print is not itself the Entity (which we do worship) Who made it, and in a real sense every sunrise and our ability to contemplate and relish it is as much a fingerprint of God as the Shroud.
Your post was as well thought-out and beautiful as it was true. Very well done. And please do not interpret my praise for your post as me worshiping your post....
I was lucky enough to see it in 1978, on the last day of it’s exposition. I really did not know what to expect. At first it was hard to see, simply because you are looking at a negative image, seeing the blood stained areas the brought it into focus! It was an amazing sight. When the Shroud was first photographed, the negative image came out positive, what middle ages artist could even know how to fake that.
As we walked back to our Hotel after dinner we could see the Scientists setting up their equipment in the Cathedral in hope of unraveling it’s mysteries.
Nice post! You said it beautifully, and in very few words.