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  Turin - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Turin (Italian Torino) is a major industrial city in north-western Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the west bank of the Po River.
As of 2001, Turin is the fourth largest city in population in Italy, with a population of 857,433.
The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist houses the Shroud of Turin, an old linen cloth with an imprint of a man, which is believed by many to be the cloth that covered Jesus in his grave.
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 Collegamento pro Sindone - News
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist of Turin, Inferior Church, January 21 — April 30, 2006 - On Saturday, January 21, at 10:30 in the Metropolitan Seminary in via XX Settembre 83, Turin, The Mystery of the Shroud.
Severino Poletto - Archbishop of Turin and Pontifical Custodian of the Shroud, Mgr.
Severino Poletto, Archbishop of Turin and Shroud Custodian; Mgr.
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 Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Turin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exterior of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Italian Cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista) is the major church of Turin, Italy.
It was built during 1491-1498 and it is adjacent to an earlier campanile (1470).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Baptist_(Turin)   (201 words)

  
 Shroud of Turin History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Some historic evidences shows that the Shroud of Turin was previously in the East, initially in the city of Edessa and later in Constantinople, before it was brought to Europe during the Crusades.
Shortly after that in 1694 the Shroud of Turin was relocated once again and this time it has been kept (brief interruptions aside) in the superb chapel that Guarino Guarini built between the Cathedral and the Royal Palace.
Today the Shroud of Turin is presently kept in the round chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.
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 Shroud of Turin - Crystalinks
The Shroud of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is an ancient linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion.
John Damascene mentions the image in his anti-iconoclastic work On Holy Images, describing the Edessa image as being a "strip", or oblong cloth, rather than a square, as other accounts of the Edessa cloth hold.
CXXVI (copia), National Library Palermo) Unless it is the Shroud of Turin, then the location of the Image of Edessa since the 13th century is unknown.Some historians speculate that the shroud may have been found in Constantinople by the Knights Templar during the 12th or 13th century and subsequentially taken to France.
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 Shroud of Turin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The first photo of the Shroud of Turin, taken in 1898, had the surprising feature that the image on the negative was clearer than the positive image.
John Damascene mentions the image in his anti-iconoclastic work On Holy Images http://www.ccel.org/ccel/damascus/icons.html, describing the Edessa image as being a "strip", or oblong cloth, rather than a square, as other accounts of the Edessa cloth hold.
Pope John Paul II called the Shroud "the icon of the suffering of the Innocent of all times." The Shroud was given to the Catholic Church by the House of Savoy in 1983.
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 Collegamento pro Sindone - Archdiocese of Turin
In fact, the Inferior Church of the Cathedral is opened to the public and prepared with an evocative journey “in stations” that ideally accompanies to the case where the Shroud is preserved inside the Cathedral.
In the restoration intervention of the Cathedral after the fire in the Shroud chapel (April 12, 1997), one of the main stages of the plan is the restoration of the inferior church or crypt and its Renaissance structure.
The Inferior Church was realized in 1498 together with the present Cathedral: it was a mausoleum and its architectonic system reproduces faithfully the structure of the upper level, a Latin cross, three aisles, with the arms of the transept and the chorus of equal shape and dimensions.
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 The Shroud of Turin - ReligionFacts
It is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, from which it derives its most common name.
Some believe the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus and that his image was recorded on its fibers at his resurrection.
John refers to a "sudarium" (σουδαριον) that covered the head and the "linen cloth" or "bandages" (οθονιον—othonion) that covered the body.
www.religionfacts.com /christianity/things/shroud_of_turin.htm   (5384 words)

  
 Shroud Of Turin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Shroud of Turin - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth with the image of an apparently crucified man. Many people believe it to be the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb; others contend it is a medieval hoax, or something else altogether.
The shroud is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin.
The first documented appearance of the cloth now stored in Turin was in 1357, when the widow of French knight Geoffroy de Charny had it displayed in a church in Lirey.
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The Shroud Of Turin - Relic or hoax?
Unless it is the Shroud of Turin, then the location of the Image of Edessa since the 13th century is unknown.
Adler and John Heller detected bilirubin and the protein albumin in the stains.
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 TBRNews.org
The Shroud of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion.
Their study prompted the then archbishop of Turin, where the Shroud is stored, to admit that the garment was a hoax.
The Shroud of Turin is a forgery, pure and simple, one of countless incidents of "pious fraud" committed by believers and vested interests who wish to shore up their flimsy faith.
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 Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist and Chapel of the Holy Shroud - Turin Piazza San Giovanni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist and Chapel of the Holy Shroud - Turin Piazza San Giovanni
The Cathedral is the only example of Renaissance sacred architecture in Turin and was built on the site of the previous basilica of San Salvatore (dating from the 3rd – 4th century) and of the medieval churches of Santa Maria de Dopno and of Saint John.
The chapels along the walls were built under the auspices of the most prominent families in Turin.
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 Shroud of Turin
The Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth bearing the image of an apparently crucified man and presently kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.
Many people believe it is the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb and that his image was somehow recorded on its fibers at the moment of his resurrection.
In the northern Spanish city of Oviedo, there is a small bloodstained dishcloth-sized piece of linen that some believe is one of the burial cloths mentioned in John's Gospel.
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 Remax Saint John by John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 ORANGE REVOLUTION :: Shroud of Turin to be Displayed
The Shroud of Turin is a square cloth 4 meters 36 cm long by 1 m 10 cm wide.
Historians and pathologists agree that the image on the Shroud of Turin is of a person who was crucified in accordance with Roman laws, that he was a Jew, 178 cm tall, and 30-45 years old.
Cathedral administrator Rev. Roman Kravchyk says an appropriate neutral site is being sought for the relic in Kyiv — maybe at St. Sophia’s Cathedral or in another church.
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 Mysteries of Shroud of Turin: The cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb and that his ...
The Shroud of Turin - The shroud of Turin at Torrione Castle.
Shroud of Turin - The Shroud of Turin, as seen by the naked eye, is a negative image of a man with his hands folded.
The Holy Shroud of Turin, Italy, perhaps the burial shroud of Jesus himself, was on display in the cathedral chapel that had been built to house it 280 years earlier.
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Turin was first founded by the Romans as a military camp in the first century BC.
Turin is probably most famous for its Shroud of Turin, which is a linen cloth believed to be used to wrap the body of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion.
The Shroud is currently being kept in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin.
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 Shroud of Turin - (Holy Shroud)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Shroud of Turin (or the Holy Shroud) is an old linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion.
It is now kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.
It is believed to be the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb and that his image was somehow recorded on its fibers at or near the time of his proclaimed resurrection.
www.shroud.org.uk   (133 words)

  
 Shroud of Turin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some believe it is the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb and that his image was somehow recorded as a photographic negative on its fibers, at or near the time of his proclaimed resurrection.
According to the Gospel of John (20:5-7), the Apostles John and Peter entered the sepulchre of Jesus, shortly after his resurrection — of which they were still unaware — and found the "linen clothes" that had wrapped his body and "the napkin, that was about his head".
In any case the removal, from Edessa, by conquest of the Image of Edessa by the Byzantine Emperor Romanus I in 944 arguably marks the first break in the legitimate chain of title regardless.
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 Shroud of Turin - Italy: Face   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Shroud of Turin: a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been crucified.
It is presently kept in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.
Shown as a photographic negative the image on the shroud is clearer and gives the man on the cloth a photographic positive appearance.
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 May 2000
30: On the night of 11 to 12 April, behind the high altar of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist at Turin, the Sainte Chapelle of the Holy Shroud is on fire.
It is for the Archbishop of Turin, the custodian of the Holy Shroud, to regain possession of this treasure.
Now, experimentation and clinical observation suggest that «the nail was inserted on a level with the groove separating the two thenar and hypothenar eminences and driven in tangentially at an angle of fifteen degrees in the direction of the thumb.
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 JERUSALEM CONNECTION FOUND FOR THE SHROUD OF TURIN [Free Republic]
According to the two researchers, their findings lend support to the church tradition that the winding cloth comes from Jerusalem, although they stressed that sufficient evidence does not exist to make a decisive claim as to the whether the shroud was indeed that of Jesus.
Pierre Barbet had intuited this on the steps of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist at Turin on Sunday the 15th October 1933, when twenty five prelates presented the sacred Relic "for the veneration of the immense crowd that had congregated in the square behind a double cordon of foot soldiers", as he relates.
Both men entered the cathedral of Saint John the Baptist amid the ceremonial of High Mass being celebrated in the presence of the Holy Shroud exposed beneath inert gas in its bulletproof glass cage.
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 Precious Blood
To be convinced of this, it is sufficient to read the author’s explanations on the placing of the nails in the hands and feet of the condemned man and on the cause of his death.
Figure 5: Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and Saint John "succeeded in lowering the Body from the Cross and transporting it to the tomb with infinite delicacy, respect and tenderness.
In the eyes of Saint John, it is not so much at the Transfiguration, which he also witnessed on Mount Tabor, that the glory of God shone on the face of Jesus, but rather at the moment of His supreme humiliation, at the "Hour" of His Passion.
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