Mystery of the Shroud
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Relics have always interested me, for they are allegedly “proof” of a certain (religious, legendary or mythological) event. Churches are built around such artifacts – the Basilica of St. Anthony has the saint’s tongue in a reliquary, for example. One of the most important and notorious relics is the Shroud of Turin (the famous blanket that covered Christ’s face post-mortem and came away with an imprint of that same face). There is a shroud that is kept at the Cathedral of John the Baptist, Turin, Italy. Of course there are many debates and mysteries concerning whether it is the real one. Scientific research is having problems with what seems like a great forgery.
Cut for blasphemy…