![]() After the transfer, the Shroud gained idespread acceptance among Catholics as the holy relic that enveloped Our Lord’s lacerated body before His Resurrection. Nevertheless, the image of Christ remained virtually unharmed.ĭuke Emmanuel Philibert (1528–80), a talented commander who served both Charles V and Philip II with distinction, transferred his seat and Christ’s burial wrap to Turin on the Italian side of the duchy, where it has remained ever since. The already burning Shroud was pulled free and doused with water, but some damage had occurred. There a disastrous fire broke out in 1532 and melted the silver reliquary. This positive image shows the damage and repairs caused by the 1532 fire. The Savoyard dukes kept the winding sheet at the beautiful Sainte Chapelle next to their castle at Chambery, high in the French Alps. ![]() Note the blood from His arms and scourge marks appear as they should.Īlthough evidence of the Shroud’s existence can be traced back to the early days of the Church, it did not enter in the historical cognizance until it came into the possession of the House of Savoy in 1453. The negative image on the photographic plate in which the body shows a positive image. The Shroud of Turin falls into that category. And so Our Lord with loving patience found innovative ways to continually teach His profound truths to a slow and preoccupied audience. Moreover, there is always an influential, perverse element in society that fights against transcendental verities as the Scribes and Pharisees have illustrated. On Easter Sunday morning, some Apostles and disciples discovered that the body of Jesus had left the tomb, leaving behind the 14 foot by 3½ foot linen cloth, but on that cloth He left a minute record of His Passion to show His infinite love for us.ĭuring His lifetime and after the Resurrection, Christ pursued His profound occupation as a teacher only with some difficulty, not because He lacked the ability to teach-certainly not-but because carnal man is slow to accept supernatural truths. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus took Our Lord’s body, bound it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb recently cut into rock. So bad had his condition become that only through Our Lord’s enormous suffering could mankind be reconciled with God. But the Scribes and the Pharisees refused to believe the Truth that stood before them and maneuvered to have Him executed in the most barbarous and agonizing manner.Ĭhrist suffered the brutal tortures, blows and floggings to His sacred flesh, then the savage crucifixion and death to rescue mankind from an avalanche of sins that had placed a curse upon them. ![]() Our Lord patiently asserted that He and the Father possessed the same Divine Essence. Toward the end of Our Lord’s life, several heated confrontations between Him and the Scribes and Pharisees occurred in the holy precincts of the Temple. ![]()
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