Scientists publish new data on the Shroud of Turin

Andrea Tornelli, in an article published in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, spoke about the new results of a scientific research of the famous Shroud of Turin – a linen cloth, in which, according to Christian tradition, the body of Jesus Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion.

The study showed that the fabric of the Shroud preserved traces of the blood of a man who, before his death, received many serious injuries, writes Sedmitsa.

The research was carried out by the Instituo Officia dei Materiali in Trieste and the Institute of Crystallography in Bari, both under Italy’s National Research Council, as well as the University of Padua’s Department of Industrial Engineering, with the results published in the article “New Biological Evidence from Atomic Resolution Studies on the Turin Shroud”.

Very small particles attached to the linen fibers of the shroud “have recorded a scenario of great suffering, whose victim was wrapped up in the funeral cloth,” said Elvio Carlino, a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography. These “nanoparticles” are of a very particular structure, size, and distribution, and are not typical for the blood of a healthy person, but rather contain levels of creatinine and ferritin found in patients who endured multiple violent traumas, such as torture.

“Hence, the presence of these biological nanoparticles found during our experiments point to a violent death for the man wrapped in the Turin Shroud,” said University of Padua professor Giulio Fanti.

The findings contradict skeptics’ claims that the shroud is merely a painted object: “There is a wide recent literature reporting on interaction between creatinine and ferritin in fatal accident or as a consequence of the rhabdomyolysis due to torture,” the article reads.

This most recent study, dealing with particles on the nanoscale, was only made possible by recent developments in the field of electron microscopy

The findings of the research conducted by prestigious scientific centers in Italy are very interesting and fully support the hypothesis put forward by previous studies conducted by biochemist Alan Adler in the 1990s. There is no longer any doubt that the body of a man who was tortured and killed in the same way as described in the Gospel telling about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross was wrapped in the Shroud.

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