The Shroud of Turin It is a linen cloth, “in which, according to the most widespread version of its origin, the face and body of Jesus can be seen”they explain in the ‘Turin Guide’, a blog specialized in the city.
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There are two versions about its origin: one says that it would be the cloak in which the body of Jesus Christ was wrapped after his crucifixion and the other claims that it was created in the Middle Ages.
The Shroud is kept in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. It has been the subject of constant research by scientists, historians, researchers and theologians.
A new study was published on July 19, ‘New insights into blood The Shroud of Turin The Shroud of Turin Tortures of Christ’, written by Giulio Fanti, an Italian scientist and researcher who has studied the Holy Shroud for years.
In this new investigation, some information was revealed about the blood stains found on the cloth, the directions in which they flowed through the threads, and the exact causes of each of the fluids.
What do the blood stains on the Shroud reveal?
As a first discovery, Fanti, together with Christian Privitera, an engineer, managed to identify “the presence of an almost transparent substance” found in the area of the lateral stains and, according to its origin, It could be the fluid that produces pulmonary edemathey explain in the study document.
In addition, they also identified three different directions in which the blood stains flow on the cloth: vertically, which would have arisen when the body was in that position; others inclined at 45 degrees from the first, which occurred with the movement of the body, and finally laterally, which are supposed to have occurred with the corpse lying on the cloth.
In the study they also discovered that in some areas, such as the left hand, Blood stains with different macroscopic characteristics are found. The author came to the conclusion that These marks exactly match the wounds that, according to the gospel, were inflicted on Jesus, because some are ‘post mortem’, meaning they were produced by the movement of the corpse and others are ‘pre-mortem’, which arose from the wound that was supposedly made in his hand during the crucifixion.
This is what the Shroud of Turin looks like in a negative process.
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In the document they also report that Some of the stains on the fabric are due to wounds caused by whipping.mostly recorded on the back of the body. They also found an injury on the head that was not caused by the crown of thorns, but that has the same characteristics as the marks on the back, so they assume it was caused in the same way and would have hurt the right eye at the same time due to the position in which it is recorded on the cloth.
Finally, they mention in the document that, although many experts claim that the amount of blood recorded on the sheet could not have been transferred by a corpse, it is due to the density of the fabric. To verify this, they performed an experiment on a piece of linen with a colored liquid that spread quickly, thus They were able to verify that Jesus’ blood quickly absorbed into the cloth, causing it to become almost completely soaked.
ERIKA LUCIA IBAÑEZ GARCIA
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