Saturday, April 10, 2010

Shroud of Turin on display again

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Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal Severino Poletto, stands in front of the Holy Shroud on Saturday. (Luca Bruno/Associated Press)
The Shroud of Turin, believed by many Christians to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, went on public display Saturday for the first time in a decade.

Over the next six weeks, about two million people are expected to view the linen bearing the faded image of a bearded man.
 
Each visitor will be allowed five minutes to stand before the bulletproof, climate-controlled case containing the cloth inside northern Italy's Turin Cathedral, where it has been kept for 500 years. In that time, the public has been allowed to view it on only five different occasions. The last time was in November, 1998...

1 comment:

liturgy said...

Thanks. I posted on the shroud today also http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/shroud-turin/2944