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To: ChurtleDawg

I couldn’t possibly be less impressed by a web site. Yes, certain features line up... as they do with ALL human beings.

For instance: Sure, the icon also has a long nose; most icons have long noses; many Jews have long noses. But the icons nose is much narrower, and lacks the bump in the middle, which is very characteristic of shroud. S o what do the two noses have in common? O my! They’re both in the middle of the face!


7 posted on 05/31/2008 6:42:16 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
But the icons nose is much narrower, and lacks the bump in the middle, which is very characteristic of shroud

I have studied the Shroud for over 40 years.

Perhaps if you read the many books and studies or corresponded with any of original scientists of the 1978 group, you would have picked up the fact the forensic scientists determined that the man of the shroud suffered from a broken nose and swollen cheek from trauma...that resulted in swelling and a 'bump" = "oh my!"

There were hundreds of icons painted in the early years, (no photography to easily reproduce) for churches and private chapels - most using the Shroud face as the model. The Shroud face is, it would seem, the origin of the physical description of what Jesus looked like that we all instantly recognize...

45 posted on 05/31/2008 11:40:06 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Typical Gun-Toting, Jesus-Loving Gramma)
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