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A Chrysanthemum image found on the Shroud is particularly significant. What
makes this so is not just the prominence and clarity of the image on the Shroud,
but the fact that this flower is depicted accurately, as to its likeness and
relationship to the face, on some early icons and coins. This includes the
Pantocrator icon at St. Catherine’s Monastery and the seventh century Justinian
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The
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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