![]() ![]() ![]() It also described the first sight of Jesus’ burial shroud: On Easter Sunday one of the possible Gospel readings describes how Peter and John found the empty tomb. In light of the Shroud’s virtual exposition, I’m sharing some brief thoughts on its authenticity based primarily on the findings of the Turin Shroud Center, located not too far away from me in Colorado. The Shroud is one of the key artifacts of Catholic history and culture and, rather than being shaped by art history, it shaped Christian iconography. Is he right to dismiss the Shroud so easily? Can we actually trace the Shroud back to the early Church? It took the advent of photography to see the great beauty of the Shroud image, demonstrating the Shroud acts like a photographic negative.Īctually, we can! We see the Shroud within Scripture and have a good sense of its subsequent travels (as I’ll describe below). As we are confined at home for this holiest time of the year, this remote veneration can help us to enter into Christ’s Passion.īut why would we want to venerate the Shroud? Isn’t it a fake, proven by carbon dating that points to the 14th century as its origin? I was recently watching Waldemar Januszczak’s The Dark Ages: An Age of Light and he dismissed the Shroud offhand since it didn’t match up with the oldest art of Jesus and looks medieval in its depiction of the suffering Christ. This Triduum we can take a virtual pilgrimage to Notre Dame in Paris to honor the Crown of Thorns on Good Friday and to Turin on Holy Saturday to venerate the Shroud. ![]()
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