The Shroud of Turin

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The passage through the Earth's Messiah, the name of Jesus has been very important for the human race, for the teachings handed down, his movement for the identification and service to God, still in the XXI century is still active.

Can not be denied according to the body of writings, the Gospels, New Testament papyri, all that has been discovered about the life of him, that his passage was very special to the miracles attributed extreme, supernatural that many of them have not been able to explain. Such is the case in point, that of the Shroud of Turin, the cloth that wrapped the body possibly of Jesus of Nazareth, and although no one has the truth on this matter, so if you can say July Marvisón says, is that probably the fabric in question was made in the first century Judea and the dead man who had suffered a passion wrapped very similar to the Gospels say that Jesus suffered.

More information about Wikipedia gives us, which is a linen cloth that shows the photographic negative image of a man who has marks and own physical trauma of crucifixion, together with other totally atypical, but consistent with the facts of the Passion .

He is now in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin (Italy) The views on the Shroud are diverse: some say it is the same canvas or cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth in the grave, and that during his resurrection his image stuck in a negative way the fibers, while others argue that the shroud is a medieval forgery or fraud. The origin of the shroud and its images is still a source of intense debate among scientists, believers, historians and writers.

The evidence and arguments for the authenticity of the shroud include materials analysis and textiles dating its origin in the first century, the unusual and unexplained properties of the image, which some could not be obtained with any imaging technique known before nineteenth century, on the other hand, analysis and arguments against including a letter from a medieval Bishop of Avignon pope claiming personal knowledge that the image was cleverly painted to withdraw money from pilgrims, radiometric dating, 1988, and analysis chemical stains on Walter McCrone.

The maximum discussion revolves around his dating of carbon-14 method carried out in 1988, scientific study conducted by three laboratories in the UK, Switzerland and the United States, which resulted in the Shroud of Turin for a date between 1260 and 1390 (± 10 years) with a 95%, which was published in the journal Nature. For many, this dating has settled the matter forever proving that the shroud is a forgery of the fourteenth century (yet to be determined how this was done). On the other hand, critics of the C-14 dating argue that this system is flawed, because the fabric is very polluted and not know to what extent the formation of the image, or the three fires he went through the linen, might affect their chemical composition, but never been able to refute the results published in the journal Nature.

In addition, in 2000 a marriage of Columbus Ohio M. Sue Benford and Joseph G. Marino exposed to Raymond Rogers (project scientist who analyzed the Holy Shroud) his theory that the cloth used to test carbon 14, was contaminated with woven fabrics appended and then stained around the fifteenth century. However, J. A. Christen applied a statistical method to this new theory and concluded that the specific date for the Shroud was correct from a statistical point of view.

Very interesting to remember, as quoted Marvizón that the analysis performed in 1973 on a different sample of the canvas threads drawn by Gilbert Raes of the Ghent Institute of Technology, confirmed that existing tissues corresponded to 200 years ago. Spinning like a four-shaped twill herringbone, was woven by hand. In it, only found a few strands of cotton, but not the slightest trace of animal hair or horsehair.

This fact has helped researchers to determine their origin with greater certainty, given that at the beginning of our era cotton was not cultivated in Europe, but instead was made in the Middle East and in Palestine. Besides the fact that it does not find traces of animal hair, confirms that it was woven into a Jewish spin. It says because the Mosaic Law Marvizón still today, prohibits mixing a plant fiber weaving with wool and animal hair, something that did not happen in Europe. Where you had to wait for the thirteenth century linen fabrics were produced similar to the one is pointing.

In fact we are told, the Shroud, shows the printed image of the naked body of a man from the front and back, sleeping attitude, with his arms folded across his abdomen. Given the size of the stamp, the man should measure 1.80 meters tall and weigh around 80 kilos. In short, along with other data, suggests that had anthropometric measures perfect.

Definitely, the Shroud is something that has been much talk and for those interested in the topic, add a few brief notes can be invited to reflect on it, such as:

The traces refer to the existence of a helmet and a crown of thorns that resulted in numerous injuries to the person in the head. The image in our eyes is a yellow discoloration of the tissue, affects only two or three superficial fibers lino.La mark for the tests, is resistant to heat, for example, suffered fire in the sixteenth century no affected the image printed on it. It also says it's the water: in the same fire, the water used to extinguish the fire, soaked the canvas without in any way affect image purity. Secondo Pia made when in 1898 the first known photographs of the Shroud, to proceed with the development of the negatives he found that the clichés were really excellent positive, hence it is considered that the image is printed on the canvas is a negative of the body is rested on the same external-D was determined to see how the image intensity varies with the distance that should exist between the canvas and the body has albergado.La image is remarkably detailed to analyze each piece of the body and examine the changes that have suffered músculos.Todo skin and it has come to confirm that the man whose image is printed on the Shroud has had a passion and death very similar to that of Jesus Nazareth.

The 120 injuries that occur on the body of the man of the Shroud were caused by a type of whip used by the Romans for their punishment to the accused. Man of the Shroud was crucified using a single nail for both feet. The left has been placed on the right, pulling the left leg to the right so that the nail pierced both feet. The image intensity is proportional to the distance between a body and a canvas covering. So that you can get the three dimensional image. The intensities of the front and back images are equal. The image is of great anatomical precision and detail. The red spots are blood and under them there is no picture. The two sides of the image match, are aligned vertically.

Lately, we know that requests for further testing on areas of radiometric cloth bearing the image have been rejected by the Holy See. Having expressed concern about the destructive nature of current dating methods, it is unlikely that this reluctance to change in the near future.