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Quite beyond science to explain Turin Shroud: Vatican daily
Friday December 30, 2011 07:52:07 PM,
IANS
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London: The Vatican's
official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has strongly endorsed
research that suggests the Turin Shroud could be the actual burial
cloth of Christ.
Experts from the National Agency for New Technologies and Energy
in Italy, who conducted five years of advanced laser experiments,
concluded that the imprint of a bearded man's face on the 14 foot
by 3.5 foot shroud could not be reproduced by the latest
scientific techniques.
They concluded that the iconic image was created by some form of
electromagnetic energy (such as a flash of light at short
wavelength), the Telegraph reported.
Giuseppe Ghiberti, the president of the Turin Commission
(responsible for the relic), told L'Osservatore Romano:
"Revelations about the shroud easily assume a sensational tone,
but in this case the measured way the scientists speak of their
research is to be appreciated. It's a rare thing that gives the
news added seriousness."
The researchers presented their results with extreme caution and
had stopped short of putting forward theories that strayed from
science, the Vatican daily said.
But the implication of their work was that the enigmatic marks on
the cloth were created at the moment of Christ's resurrection by
some sort of miracle.
The Catholic Church would welcome more tests being conducted on
the holy relic, Ghiberti said.
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