.- During
the International Convention on the Holy Shroud of Turin, which took
place last Sunday at the Catholic University of Valencia in Spain, a
group of experts proposed a new scientific study be carried out on the
famous relic.
“We believe a
large amount of new data could be obtained,” said Bruno Barberis,
director of the International Shroud Center in Turin.
Barberis further suggested that an international team of experts could carry out the study.
The last
exhaustive study that was directly performed on the Shroud took place
in 1978. “We believe that with today’s technological advances we
could obtain important advances in the knowledge of how the image on
the cloth was formed, which continues to be a mystery for science,” he
added.
According to
Barberis, the proposal has already been presented to the Archbishop of
Turin, Cardinal Severino Poletto, “and now we are awaiting the decision
of the Holy See.”
The director of
the 1978 study, American doctor John Jackson, agrees with the idea and
said “it should take place through non-aggressive methods, which is
possible.”
More discoveries
During the
Convention, Jose Delfin Villalain, professor at the Catholic University
of Valencia, presented a study showing that the image of the man on the
Holy Shroud was produced between 4-6 hours after his death.
Speaking to the
Avan news agnency, Villalain said it was the most precise scientific
data that has been gathered to date about the moment in which the image
was produced on the cloth.
If it was, in
fact, the burial cloth of Christ, he said, “we could say that the image
of the Holy Shroud was formed between 7:30pm and 9:00pm, as the Gospel
text notes that the death of Jesus took place at 3:00pm.”
Likewise,
Villalain said during the Convention that “for the first time, what may
be images of internal organs” have been discovered on the Shroud.
The marks “correspond perfectly in their location and size” with the
heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and colon, he explained. The “quantity and
precision of the images is such that, although we cannot confirm it
with absolute certainty, we do believe they probably correspond to the
organs of the man of the Holy Shroud,” Villalain stated.
Experts propose new study on Shroud of Turin
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