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Emperor Romanus I sent an army, in 944, to remove the Edessa Cloth and
transfer it to Constantinople. There are many references to it after 944. In 1080, Alexis Comnenus of
Constantinople sought assistance from Emperor Henry IV and Robert of Flanders to
protect some of the city’s relics including "the cloth found in the sepulcher
after the resurrection." A Roman codex in 1130 speaks of the cloth "on which the
image, not only of My face, but of My whole body has been divinely transformed." |
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scientific study of the Turin shroud is like a microcosm of the
scientific search for God: it does more to inflame any debate than
settle it.”
And yet, the shroud is a remarkable artefact, one of the few religious relics to have a justifiably mythical status. It is simply not known how the ghostly image of a serene, bearded man was made.”
Scientist-Journalist Philip Ball Nature, that most prestigious of scientific journals, that once had bragging rights to claim that the Shroud was fake, responding to new, peer-reviewed studies that discredit the carbon 14 dating and show that the Shroud could be authentic. WHAT WE KNOW IN 2005
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