The most amazing Christian relic – the Shroud of Turin. This canvas measures approximately four metres long and one metre width of the mapped employees in a full-length front and back.
The image is not clear. On the time-darkened painting we see a man, whose body is horrible gaping wounds. The wounds of the crown of thorns, wounds from the flogging. Now would say, he was beaten "to the white bones". Of course, this image of Jesus Christ. But the image at all? Because this Shroud is different from other art products on religious themes. Close the silhouette of a man could barely see, it becomes visible only from a distance of five meters.
The shroud has a history – it is known from written sources since the 6th century. First she was seen in the Syrian city of Edessa, then it was moved to Constantinople, where lost after the fourth Crusade in 1204. The shroud appears again in the 15th century in France, in the family of Geoffroy de Charny, a descendant of a knight who participated in the Crusade, during which he was captured Constantinople. For several centuries the Shroud changed their masters, until he was in Turin, in the ownership of Savoy Italian kings.
This relic was the subject of a religious pilgrimage, while in 1898 the Italian photographer Secondo Pia took a picture of the shroud. When Secondo Pia showed negative photographs of the shroud, he almost fainted on the negatives clearly showed the face of a man who was depicted on the shroud. Scientists, it became clear that the image of the shroud of Turin – nothing like something very similar to a photographic negative. And this despite the fact that the relic was on view from the 15th century!
Began an intensive scientific study of the shroud of Turin. Investigated by physicians, criminologists, theologians, lawyers, physicists, art historians, historians, botanists, chemists and many other scientists. It is the most studied and studied relic in the world. The most careful study of the shroud of Turin was conducted by a team of eminent scientists who came to the conclusion that the Shroud belonged to Jesus Christ, and was not medieval crafts on religious themes. The fabric of the shroud was made in the ancient time, a fabric with a type of "Damascus" found in ancient tombs. This fabric was very expensive, because Joseph of Arimathea who provided the burial cloth, was a very rich man.
The image on the shroud is a photographic negative in the full sense of the word. The intensity of the image depends on the distance from the body of the deceased person. This property gave the possibility of using equipment that makes bulk aerial images to reconstruct the three-dimensional image of a person displayed on the shroud. The painting found traces of pollen from plants growing in Palestine and flowering at a time when he was buried, Jesus Christ. Also on the fabric was found clear imprints of plants, which also grow only in Palestine.
In the eyes of the deceased were found coins with grammatical errors. Only after studying the shroud for error on the part of the Palestinian-drew the attention of numismatists. Was is a very rare coin the turn of our era. The blood found on the shroud belonged to a man. There was even determined blood group fourth, the most rare.
Most importantly traces of paint on the canvas was not found. The image formed due to dehydration (dehydration) of cellulose fibers to a thickness of several microns from the surface. Scientists say a lot about how, if the Shroud of Turin or fake.But even the most eminent scientists in the most modern laboratories, using the most cutting-edge technology can't make an image even remotely resembling the properties of the image on the shroud of Turin.
