Shroud of Turin Info Slide deck, vido links will not work but you can find lots of them on youtube!

4.  Prior to 2002 restorations
 After 2002 restorations
What does it look like?

6. The first image
 Taken by amateur photographer Secondo Pia,
who was allowed to photograph it while it was
being exhibited in the Turin Cathedral in 1898.

7.  Negative images taken of the shroud

8.  Crown of thorns & whipping wounds

9.  Gundelia tournefortii: The plant most likely used for making the
crown of thorns worn by Christ
 Grows in the semi-desert areas of Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq,
Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Anatolia.
 Crown of thorns

10.  Whipping wounds
 Approx. 100 – 120 marks visible
on the shroud.
 Likely that more than one type of
whip was used

11.  Spear wound and nails

12.  Spear wound

13.  Illustration of position where nails would have penetra

14.  Burn holes
 Several burn marks as a result of a fire that broke out in the
Sainte Chappelle, Chambery in France in 1532.

15.  Burn holes
 These holes are believed to have been caused during a ‘Trial by
Fire’ prior to 1516 as they appear in an artist’s copy of the
shroud in the Church of St Gommaire, Belgium dated 1516

16.  Burn holes
 These holes are believed to have been caused during a ‘Trial by
Fire’ prior to 1516 as they appear in an artist’s copy of the
shroud in the Church of St Gommaire, Belgium dated 1516

17.  Water stains

18.  Missing sections from the shroud
 Two missing sections, removal undocumented
 Additional portion removed for carbon dating

19.  The invisible seam

28. The Knights Templar (medieval Christian
military order)
 Historic documents indicate that in the year 1287 a
French Knight Templar Arnaut Sabbastier was shown
a ‘long linen cloth on which was imprinted the figure
of a man’ during his reception into the Templar’s
Order
 The previous note provides a possible link that
between the disappearance of the Cloth of Edessa in
1204 and the appearance of the Shroud with the De
Charney family in 1357 the Shroud was secretly
hidden with the Templar’s Order
 How can this be the case if the Edessa cloth is a
sudarium and the shroud is a sindon?

31.  The Sudarium of Oviedo, or Shroud of Oviedo, is a
bloodstained cloth, measuring c. 84 x 53 cm, kept in
the Cámara Santa of the Cathedral of San Salvador,
Oviedo, Spain
 First mentioned in AD 570 in an account by Antoninus
of Piacenza, who writes that the Sudarium is being
cared for in a cave near the monastery of Saint Mark,
in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

37. YOU
DECIDE!