Diana Walsh Pasulka

Le Saint Soiré de Touraine, témoin de la passion de Jesus Christ, the Holy Shroud of Turin, witness to the passion of Jesus Christ.

He examines more than 100 years of historical, archaeological, and scientific research.

His conclusion, the cloth has all the characteristics of authenticity.

Interesting.

Interesting.

Go back.

Even those who reject the idea the shroud is a 2,000-year-old, how do you say that word, sepulchral cloth, he writes, are unable to explain the imprint of the body.

Adversaries of the authenticity of the shroud come up against an enigma that this one cannot be the work of a counterfeiter because to make such an image would have required unknown scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages.

The image is not a painting, no trace of brushstrokes, no outline has been observed even under electron microscope.

We must exclude the hypothesis of a smear, the application of a base relief of wood or marble, or a metal statue heated and placed on the cloth.

It was the Catholic Church itself unwittingly sparked...

What would become a global obsession with the shroud in 1898 when it gave the green light to a rare public exhibition of the cloth.

Secondopia, an amateur, became the first to photograph the linen's strange sepia shadows and the high contrast created by black and white photography.

enhanced by blurry stains.

When Pia went to the darkroom to check his plates, he was startled to see that the negatives revealed a haunting, perfectly proportional facial image of a serene bearded man and the imprint of a body tortured by what appears to be flogging lacerations and puncture wounds.

Can we see an actual image of what the... Yeah, that's it.

Is that the actual image?

Can you click on that, Jamie, and make it large?

Wow.

How bizarre.