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# 56 If the Shroud is real, it is a physical relic of the Resurrection, in two ways: 1)It is an image of the dead Christ; 2) It is evidence of the moment of the Resurrection, and the Resurrection’s physical effects on a piece of cloth. Physicists have calculated the duration of the burst of energy, and the power of that burst, that would have been necessary to create the image, and it is utterly beyond the capability of any earthly power to generate. There are always proud people who will sniff, and praise themselves with, “I need no evidence.” They are too lazy to become informed about the abundance of extra-biblical evidence of biblical events, which exists for good reasons. The maker of the video, Bubba in his mother’s basement, has studied nothing about photography, geometry, physics, or the hundred other sciences that support the authenticity of the Shroud. 'To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.' Saint Thomas Aquinas 'Thomas of Aquino'; 1225 – 7 March 1274), was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio.