Sindòn The Mysterious Shroud Of Turin

Sindòn The Mysterious Shroud Of Turin
Guido Pagliarino

This essay divulges what the research has established about the famous Shroud of Turin, and  it is not intended to persuade to believe that the Cloth of Turin really wrapped the body of Christ a couple of thousands year ago.

The author returns several times to certain subjects, according to different perspectives: the reader does not consider such reiterations as not necessary and involuntary: the work includes a general introductory part - at some point, considering it useful, already with in-depth studies, as for the medical conclusions of the anatomopathologist Pierluigi Baima Bollone - and a section, divided into chapters, specifically dealing with particular topics already covered in the first part, for example the photographs of the Shroud, and a chronology.

This essay has been updated several times by the author.

The essay is not intended to persuade to believe that the Sheet of Turin has really wrapped the body of Christ a couple of thousand years ago or, as commonly said, that it is authentic-

On the other hand, authenticity can also mean something else, you can say the Shroud preserved in Turin is the Cloth that wrapped body of Christ, but it could be different than simply assume that an item is two thousand years old; and if I do not take a position on the fact that this famous Sheet wrapped Jesus, I suppose that the reasons for thinking that the Shroud is very ancient are prevailing, as there are currently lots of evidence to support it and only two against, of which only one seems objectively to be considered: the radiodating tests on Shroud samples which determined the age of the Sheet at lower medieval period; but they are increasingly disputed by Christian experts, scientifically and not only. The other reason against the Shroud is a prejudice, that comes both from anticlerical laity

and from the majority of the Christians Reformed, preclusion that leads the first to ignore the theme, and sometime to mock it; and leads the Protestant believers to condemn the veneration of the Shroud, which they consider to be a mere ”symbol” created by human hands: they follow the Old Testament condemnation of ”make for yourself images”, historically born for anti-idolatrous reasons, although Catholics argue that the prohibition existed only before God was incarnated in Jesus, showing himself to the world as ”image”, that is as carnal human figure, without any possibility to be confused with graven images; there are, moreover, Catholics who deny authenticity, in the sense that the Shroud isn't precisely the one that wrapped Jesus , and you can find Protestants which assume it is authentic, at least in the second sense of the term or even in the first. In any case, it should be stressed that the Christian faith is not based on the Shroud of Turin but, historically, on the oral witness of the Apostles on Christ’s resurrection, gathered within the first century in the books of the New Testament and come down to us because it was preserved by the Church over the centuries, with systematic control of matching between the new copies and the previous ones, starting with the oldest.

With this spirit comes the second edition of the essay of Guido Pagliarino on the Shroud, , carried out considering new data and correcting a couple of inaccuracies in the book released years ago

The author returns several times to certain subjects, according to different perspectives: the reader does not consider such reiterations as not necessary and involuntary: the work includes a general introductory part - at some point, considering it useful, already with in-depth studies, as for the medical conclusions of the anatomopathologist Pierluigi Baima Bollone - and a section, divided into chapters, specifically dealing with particular topics already covered in the first part, for example the photographs of the Shroud, and a chronology.

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Guido Pagliarino

SINDÒN

THE MYSTERIOUS SHROUD OF TURIN

Essay

Translation by Annibale Marsili

Guido Pagliarino

SINDÒN The mysterious Shroud of Turin

Essay

Translation from Italian to English by Annibale Marsili

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© 2020 Guido Pagliarino - All rights belong to the author

Previous editions:

First printed edition: “La misteriosa Sindone di Torino”, © 2007-2012 Boopen Editore

Second revised and enlarged printed edition and first e-book edition [only Pdf]: “Sindòn la misteriosa Sindone di Torino”, © 2013-2014 Editrice GDS. This edition is out of print from 2015, and all the rights are returned to the author

Third edition only on e-book mobi Amazon and epub Kobo, by the author, © 2015 Guido Pagliarino

Fourth edition on printed book and e-book, all formats, Tektime distribution © 2019 Guido Pagliarino

On the cover: One of the two paintings by Giovanni Battista della Rovere “il Fiammenghino” depicting Jesus wrapped into the Shroud

The general and detailed photos of the Shroud inside the book belong to the Catholic Church, therefore they belong to all of us

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters and paragraphs

- AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION (#ulink_b9a99d18-fef2-5534-ade1-4361883d26b6)

- THE MYSTERIOUS SHROUD (#ulink_da3612bc-b848-569e-840f-a63c8c67fd21)

- A) General introduction: (#ulink_e406e262-2da3-5cdd-bcda-f091fba344c1)

- No doubt.. (#ulink_229f629c-c975-594e-90f2-0fa74a56caaf)

- Linen cloth or strips (#ulink_a1ed9bee-08b7-547f-92b6-53e30a08b97a)?

- History of Shroud until A.D. 1356 and the first definite historical record in the same year (#ulink_38cc380b-0206-54f1-b513-520c96eb42c3)

- Some have attempted to create a Shroud-like image recently, but they have failed to reproduce the relic same specificities so far; who produced similar images, however, was unable to replicate all its characteristics

- Why are the thumbs not visible on the Shroud and the right foot covers the left one on the positive photographic image?

- Coins

- Aloe and myrrh

- Crurifragium

- Wounds and abrasions marks

- Wounds, injuries, bloodstains detected on the Shroud exactly match the Gospels descriptions of the Passion of Jesus Christ

- Statistics

- Forensic examination by the pathologist Professor Pierluigi Baima Bollone

- B) In detail:

- I - PHOTOGRAPHS