The Shroud of Turin is one of the most significant Christian relics. We are talking about linen, in which, according to legend, Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of the Savior after his torture and death. Millions of believers around the world are convinced that the shroud displays the imprints of the face and body of Jesus Christ. Laboratory studies have shown that a person who died in great agony was in fact wrapped in this cloth. This, in particular, is indicated by the composition of dried blood on the canvas. The relic is kept in the Italian city of Turin, in the Cathedral of John the Baptist.
Now scientists from the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Research in Palermo have made an even more surprising discovery. Experts have determined that the pattern on the Turin Shroud began to move from the moment the bloody body was wrapped in cloth! The easiest way would be to assume that the person wrapped in a cloth was still alive and moving, but experts rule out this possibility. Speech, in their opinion, is clearly about a fresh corpse, which lay motionless on the fabric for a certain time, which is why its outlines were so clearly imprinted on it. However, then the image suddenly shifted.
Giuseppe Maria Catalano, who is the author of this study, is not afraid to make daring assumptions. According to his professional opinion, a man wrapped in a shroud could subsequently begin to move, that is, literally come to life, or rise again, to use Church language. In addition, the Italian does not exclude that we can talk about a real religious miracle, when the drawing on the canvas spontaneously changed many centuries after it appeared on it. If this is indeed the case, then the mysterious find of Catalano is open for discussion, controversy and, perhaps, even for the next numerous religious works on this issue.
After all, even the authenticity of the Turin Shroud is still in question. For example, in the most ancient Gospel of Barnabas (the closest disciple of Jesus Christ) recently found in Turkey, it is said that Judas Iscariot was crucified on the cross, not the Savior. Therefore, the "new discovery" of Giuseppe Maria Catalano only adds confusion to church relics and church dogmas in general. And nothing more, since this discovery does not demonstrate the truth or even some kind of Christian miracle, which, apparently, the researchers hoped for …