For the first time in five years, starting Sunday the for the public to see Turin grave cloth again. By 24 June, the four good one meter long linen cloth will be admired. It shows the body portrait of a man. Many Christians consider it the cloth was wrapped in Jesus after his crucifixion.
As of Sunday, the Turin grave cloth is to be seen in public again for the first time in five years , About denies its authenticity science. An aid in religion, it can be in any case, says the Catholic Church. Scientists showed, however, that the cloth was produced until the Middle Ages. If you want to take a look in the next 67 days, you must make an appointment for it. As of Saturday this a million people had already done so.
Turin looks at first glance, not just as a place that holds great mystery. Prior to the drawing board backdrop of the northern Italian industrial city that mysterious piece of fabric that is preserved in a side chapel of the cathedral appears almost as a foreign body: the grave Shroud of Turin. From Sunday, it is shown for the first time in five years the public. Last more than two million visitors made the pilgrimage to the canvas in April and May 2010, which is revered by Catholics as grave cloth of Jesus Christ crucified. For the upcoming show is already more than a million visitors have logged in.
Even after 100 years of research, scientists argue
In 2015, after more than 100 years of scientific debate, researchers still argue about whether the cloth is genuine or not. Has actually received on this piece of fabric a lifelike portrait of Jesus? And how could then print on the fabric move or is it just a medieval forgery?
Chemical analysis and physical tests, religious beliefs and ideological prejudices collide in the debate on the authenticity of the grave cloth. To outsiders, it is difficult to assess the validity of the respective arguments.
The origins of linen are still in the dark
The origins of linen are still in the dark. According to some experts, it should be identical to the so-called Abgar-cloth, which was worshiped in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the southern Anatolian Edessa in modern Turkey. This linen later came to Constantinople Opel and disappeared there during the sack of the city by the Crusaders in 1204. In the second half of the 14th century it is mentioned in France. One thing is at least this much: Since 1578 located permanently in Turin.
At the beginning of the scientific study of the grave cloth was a photo. In the darkroom saw the Italian amateur photographer Secondo Pia, 1898, the negative image that clearly showed the features of a man in middle age. The body showed signs of numerous injuries that matched the scourging, the crown of thorns and the spear described by the Gospels. However, the scientists remained skeptical. Physicists, chemists and biologists studied the linen so often that it is now a substance of the best-researched piece in the subsequent period. Traces of pollen and spores refer to plants of the eastern Mediterranean; the material and its production adapted to the time of Christ, it said.
Catholic Church does not comment on the grave cloth
A severe blow to all those who were convinced of the authenticity of the cloth, introduced in 1988, the result of a radiocarbon tests represent. Three universities were independently each other to the conclusion that it was from the time 1260-1390. However, this finding was soon called into question: the result has been distorted by later contamination by water extinguishing a fire of 1532 and by patch fabric patches. The last word on the age of the grave cloth is therefore still not spoken to many experts believe.
The Catholic Church has not interfered in the debate. An official statement about the authenticity of the grave cloth she has not issued till today. There is therefore no relic in the strict sense. Pope John Paul II. (1978-2005) said in 1998 in Turin, the science must determine the authenticity of the cloth. The church possesses this no “special skills”. He called on researchers to go without prejudice to work. Benedict XVI. (2005-2013) described it in 2010 as an aid in religion.
“Faced with this uncertainty, we have the assurance of faith”
“The science are no answers and their answers are uncertain coincidences,” said Turin Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia recently with a view of the grave cloth , But that is, in his view no cause for concern for the believers. “Faced with this uncertainty, we have the assurance of faith.” A striking proof against the authenticity of the grave cloth give it to this day
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