Turin Shroud goes back on display for faithful and curious

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Turin's archbishop says interest in the Shroud of Turin is so keen that many pilgrims who already saw the burial cloth some believe covered Jesus are returning to see the linen again when it goes back on display starting Sunday.

The 4.3-meter-long (14-foot) cloth will be displayed April 19-June 24. Pope Francis will view it on June 21 on an overnight trip to the Turin area, which will include private time with relatives.

Public viewings of the cloth were last held in 2010.

"Many pilgrims who had already seen the shroud in past showings come back, even though some saw it just five years ago," Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia said on Saturday.

"That's not a long time. And yet many of the bookings we have are people who have already seen the shroud. That means there is a fundamental need in people's hearts to renew this incredible experience that they had the first time they saw it," the prelate told reporters.

Reservations are mandatory but free of charge to see the shroud, displayed in a climate-controlled case, in Turin's cathedral. Turin's mayor said recently that more that 1 million people had made reservations. In 2010, some 2.5 million people came, according to organizers of the display.

The pope's predecessor, Benedict XVI, has described the cloth as an icon "written with the blood" of a crucified man. Benedict said there was "full correspondence with what the Gospels tell us of Jesus."

When Pope John Paul II saw the shroud in 1998, he said the mystery forces questions about faith and sciences and whether it really was Jesus' burial linen. He urged continuous study.

Skeptics say the linen bearing the figure of a crucified man is a medieval forgery.

Nosiglia said people of all faiths will come to see the shroud, not just Christians. "Even non-believers will come. It's an occasion that brings everybody together and aims to give a precise response to the violence in this world. It tells us that the way to build a fairer world is not violence, but love," he said.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-04-20

Wasn't it proven to be a fake?

Wasn't it proven to be a fake?

Yup, just like sugar, chocolate and red wine are healthy beneficial substances.... at least to some people!!

http://www.sillybeliefs.com/shroud.html

It has been established to be a fake after extensive research into its composition and from the seeds and other paraphernalia found attached to it. As well, the age of the cloth is not consistent with cloth made at the time of Christ's death but a few centuries later. It was further established that it was not made at any location anywhere near where He was killed.

Jesus is buried in a tomb in Srinigah.

Live and let live.

Nobody gets decapitated for not believing in it.

Live and let live.

Nobody gets decapitated for not believing in it.

Not these days at least....

Well now, to each its own i'd say, same-same ...

Personally i prefer red undies either on bushes or fences!

Wasn't it proven to be a fake?

Yes, but money is real

"Faith is the belief in something that cannot be proven, blind faith is the belief in that which has proven to be false"...or something along those lines

I have a handkerchief I can display, if anybody is interested. I's used.

Live and let live.

Nobody gets decapitated for not believing in it.

Not these days at least....

These are the days that matter.

almost the same as with the mysterious object within Mecca. They won't let anyone view it because it is just a common meteorite that they are worshiping. The world would be a much better place without all of these religions. They are based on lies and fuel much of the evil in the world. The epitome of hypocrisy!!!

Hitchens must be turning in his smoked glass.

Wasn't it proven to be a fake?

The shroud of Turin or the Catholic church?

Jesus is buried in a tomb in Srinigah.

Wow - you have proof?

Wasn't it proven to be a fake?

Yup, just like sugar, chocolate and red wine are healthy beneficial substances.... at least to some people!!

What are you on about?

There is scientific evidence of the health benefits of flavonols from cocoa and even stronger for red wine.

Next ...

Jesus is buried in a tomb in Srinigah.

Wow - you have proof?

Great response! But there is a tradition that Yeshua ben joseph is buried there that is as old as any christian legends in the levant. Oddly still, many years ago researchers investigating this or that in some remote monasteries keep coming across ancient docs refering to the white man, Isa. As it turns out, this was exactly the time period of interest. So, the Jesus was in India (either during his missing years or after death story). Who knows? It is fascinating. The story supports at least 50% of the current narrative as the muslims beleive he did in fact come down off the cross before death, or that another was crucified in his place. Great adeventure to consider such things. This backdrop actually gives life to his totally eastern sayings and their difficulty fitting in with the then Jewish tradition- christ appears nearly as a bodhisatva.

In all things the simplest answer is usually correct. So, assuming the shroud was not from Jesus still presents a delimena that is not nearly solved by just objecting to its age- how on earth was it possible for this image to be cast? If natural, why is such imagery no where else known in the archeological record? Why is it unable to be reproduced. So, theres a mystery there no doubt but its certainly not likely supernatural, its just we dont understand it yet. In the middle ages a piece of the cloth was repaired and it is rumored that this was the area that was chosen for carbon dating. Possible? When the shroud is denied to exist prior to roughly the early 1300s we then ask ourselves "is there any other events from this time which may have had such a person rolled in linen, yet deeply honored and revered afterwards?" Yes, Jacques de Molay! Not only would his followers have the desire to honor such a device but the means to protect it. Lost in time, if it made its way into the catholic church as one of their revered relics it would be all the more wonderful and ironic for the followers of Molay, the Templar Knights. I have read this theory before. As a 32 degree mason I find it comports well with all I know of freemasonry and history. I can accept this. (See Friday the 13th, 1307).

Kashmir- Roza Bal of Yeshua

Live and let live.

Nobody gets decapitated for not believing in it.

Well, not any more........besides which, in the Christian hay day there was a decided preference for burning people alive. Sure, there was the odd crucifixion or beheading but Christians really got into the burning thing.

I was sold this as a kid, this linen was impregnatted by an Alien, and have faith, so I had Faith and believed in this shroud..

May the money roll on in, but at least it ain't mine.

Live and let live.

Nobody gets decapitated for not believing in it.

Well, not any more........besides which, in the Christian hay day there was a decided preference for burning people alive. Sure, there was the odd crucifixion or beheading but Christians really got into the burning thing.

When precisely was this Christian heyday? At the time of Jesus' death the small group referred to as followers of the way, were considered a Jewish sect.