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Saturday, August 12, 2006

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Believers from all over the world venerate the Turin shroud because it is impressed apparently with the image of the dying Christ. The miracle nature of the relic was further attested in their minds by the very fact that an accidental fire could not destroy the markings of the passion of Christ. The burn marks are as visible as the silhouette of Jesus through the weave of the shroud.
Accelerated mass spectrometry was used in 1968 to date the shroud. Tests dated it anywhere between 1260 and AD 1390. The shroud was obviously a fake but did that stop believers from worshiping the relic?
For a believing heart facts do not apparently add up. They pale in comparison with the idea behind the relic.
benny

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