The Turin Cathedral seems to have a canvas in which really was wrapped up the body of Jesus Christ of Turin Shroud is a linen cloth 437 long and 111 centimeters wide. It is stored in the Italian city of Turin in the Cathedral of John The baptist. On canvas are two negative typos of the human bodies with traces of injuries – front and back. Some believe that it is the Savior removed from the cross was wrapped in this canvas, whose body and imprinted on fabric in a supernatural way.
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Skeptics doubt it. And they suspect that the shroud is still fake. That is, the image on it, if not drawn, then somehow obtained artificially. Both sides fiercely They have been arguing for many years. And now there are new results – in favor of those who believe in the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. They were introduced scientists from the University of Padova.
Professor Giulio Fanti, expert in Department of Mechanics and Thermal Measurements, Faculty of Engineering University of Padua’s Engineering Faculty assures: the fabric of the Shroud of Turin was made in the time of Jesus Of Christ. And even earlier – about 3 centuries before his birth. But in in any case, the shroud is not younger than the 4th century AD.
Professor and colleagues used forensic approaches to analyze the fibers of the Shroud of Turin. By applying infrared spectroscopy, they compared these fibers with others ancient patterns. And confident in their results at 95 percent.
Skeptics e cite 1988 studies when three independent laboratories performed radiocarbon dating of tissue. And it gave the result: the shroud was made in the period from 1260 years to 1390.
Giulio Fanti is aware of such a “sentence.” But believes that radiocarbon dating results were distorted by exposure fire and water on the fabric – it suffered in a fire. Moreover, the shroud was cooked in sunflower oil, trying to peel soot.
The professor described his findings in the book “The Secret of the Shroud” (Mistero della Sindone) co-authored by journalist Saverio Gaeta (Saverio Gaeta). The book is timed to coincide with the display Shroud of Turin, which will be held March 30 – on the eve catholic easter. You can see the relic in the group out of 300 people, which must be young people, sick and disabled.
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Not the first time
Two years ago, believers were encouraged by the National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development Italy (Enea). It published a report on five years of research. Shroud of Turin, which hosted a group of American scientists STURP (Shroudof Turin Reasearch Project). It is their conclusions and their own analysis allowed the compilers of the report – scientists di Lazzaro, Murra, Santoni, Nickelatti and Baldaccini – declare: The Shroud of Turin is not a fake.
“Double image, front and back, of a person, subjected to torture and crucifixion, which is visible on the linen fabric of the Shroud of Turin, the report says, has numerous unusual characteristics, chemical and physical ones that are currently impossible to reproduce in laboratory conditions, it is impossible to repeat, and therefore fake images on the shroud. But it is also not allows to formulate a reliable hypothesis about the mechanism imprint formation. Today, science is unable to explain how the imprint of the body was formed on the Shroud. “It was only found that the body was on the canvas as if no more two days.
But the origin of the imprint on the Shroud – this is the main secret. And she remains unsolved.
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