The solution of the mystery of the Shroud of Turin: the canvas is real!

The phenomenon of the Shroud of Turin is revealed. Was the body of Christ wrapped in it after death?

Scientists denying the very fact of the existence of God, sometimes face riddles, to which science is not able to find an explanation. For skeptics who believe that the Holy Fire in Jerusalem is just a recurrent lightning strike, the most mysterious Christian phenomenon remains the Turin Shroud. Did the Creator's face or the story of her really print on it - a beautiful fairy tale on the biblical theme?

The Shroud History

About the Shroud is mentioned in all four books of the Gospel. In books from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, with a little discrepancy, it is said of the four-meter linen cloth in which Joseph wrapped the body of Jesus Christ after he was removed from the crucifixion. After the miraculous resurrection of Christ, the same piece of cloth was found in the coffin. It barely distinguishes the imprint of the male silhouette with wounds in the area of ​​the feet, head, arms and chest.

"When the evening came, a rich man from Arimathaea came in the name of Joseph, who also studied with Jesus; he came to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered the giving of the body; and taking up the body, Joseph wrapped it in a clean cloth and laid it in his new coffin, which he carved in a rock; and, pouring a large stone to the door of the coffin, retired "

The first suspicions that the story of the Shroud - no more than a fantasy, were provoked by the church fashion in Byzantium XI century. Among the priests there, the altar covers with the image of Christ - in fact, a copy, the same funeral shroud - began to be popular. In each church of Constantinople, several such covers could be found.

The first time about the original of the Shroud of Turin in history is known in 1353. The French knight Geoffroy de Charney in his estate near Paris exhibits a shroud for worship, willingly showing it to everyone and telling the story of the canvas. In 1345 he participated in a campaign against the Turkish yoke, where in battle he managed to get a Christian shrine in his hands. Geoffrey's find was appraised by the royal family: they built a church around their shroud and set up a pilgrimage to it.

The horns managed to get rich quickly and hand over the shroud to the descendants when the English invaded the estate. They took her to Switzerland and profitably sold to the Dukes of Savoy. The noble family invited experts from the Vatican to examine the shroud. their verdict was this:

"A typical drawing that has no value."

In 1983 the dukes were handed over to Turin - the Vatican became its owner, who many years ago considered it a useless piece of cloth.

Shocking results of the Shroud study

So, the shrine is a linen cloth with two male images. Forensics believe that the person wrapped in it was the victim of a violent death, before which he was tortured with scourging. On one side is his face with his hands folded and his legs together. On the other - the back of the same person with bruises. The studies carried out by them confirmed that the imprint on the tissue appeared when the dead body was wrapped in it.

The version of criminologists forced to extract from the dusty library of the Vatican records about the incident that occurred at the end of the XIX century. Photographer Secondo Pia took a few pictures, and with the manifestation of the negative saw a clear imprint of Jesus Christ. And, on it minor nuances of the face were more noticeable than on the fabric itself.

"While working with negatives of the film in the darkness of the photo lab, I suddenly saw how the positive image of Jesus Christ began to appear on the photographic plate. Since then, there was no limit to the excitement. I spent the whole night checking and double-checking the discovery. Everything was exactly like this: on the Turin Shroud imprinted a negative image of Jesus Christ, and a positive one can be obtained by making a negative from the Shroud of Turin "

Did the skeptics prove the opposite?

In 1988, recorded the only case in history, when Rome allowed to cut off a small piece of the shroud for examination. It was divided into three parts and sent to different parts of the world: the University of Arizona, the Polytechnic Institute in Swiss Zurich and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Scientists agreed that the fabric was created in the interval between 1275 and 1381 years. The diagonal way of its weaving, in their opinion, confirms the impossibility of its creation in ancient times - this method was invented in the Middle Ages. They were unshakable in the results of diagnosis, because it used the latest technology: ultraviolet scanning, spectroscopy and radiocarbon dating.

Unexplained events associated with the Turin Shroud

To doubt the accuracy of modern technology, the reasoning of historians and archaeologists. While scientific instruments proved that the shroud is made of cotton, scientists missed an important property of this fabric. Cotton is prone to rot, so the fabric with a print simply would not have survived to this day - unlike flax. All fabrics created in the Middle Ages were mixed: they added wool or cotton. Did it make sense for counterfeiters to make a special weaving machine made of 100% flax?

The shroud can be called the "Fifth Gospel" if only because the analysis confirms that the marks on it are spots of human blood. In the forehead, impressions of jets of vascular blood are visible. They could have sprung from the crown of thorns: its thorns hit the skin, pierced it and caused profuse bleeding. Blood is mixed with ancient microorganisms and pollen of plants, which grow exclusively in the territory of Palestine, Turkey and Central Europe.

The fact that the image is represented in yellow-brown tones is explained by an amazing hypothesis. A similar coloration can be given to the tissue only by chemical deformation of the tissue molecules, which occurs when heating or passing through ultraviolet radiation. This once again confirms the fact that the Turin Shroud witnessed not only the death, but also the resurrection of Jesus.

In 1997, the Shroud proved its sacred power. During the preparations for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first scientific study of the Turin shrine, a serious fire occurred. One of the firemen felt an incredible burst of energy. He managed to break down the refractory and bullet-proof glass of the sarcophagus with cloth without much effort, which is beyond the control of an ordinary person. How else can you call this event, if not by the miracle of the Shroud of Turin?