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In Edessa and also in Constantinople, the cloth was apparently kept folded in
such a way that only the face was visible. By folding the cloth, doubled in
fours (tetradiplon) that is the result: a centered face of Jesus on a horizontal
folded cloth as seen in a 10th century painting of Abgar V holding a picture
that is odd for its horizontal shape as a portrait. See Example: Image of Edessa In Constantinople, the cloth was sometimes ceremoniously unfurled, raised up
like a vertical banner, in a way that showed a full frontal picture of Jesus as
though rising from a grave. In 1201, Nicholas Mesarites, the sacristan of the
Pharos Chapel where the Image of Edessa was kept, wrote: "Here He rises again and the sindon [=Shroud], is
the clear proof, still smelling fragrant of perfumes, defying corruption because
they wrapped the mysterious naked dead body from head to feet." John Jackson was one of several physicists who physically examined the Shroud
in 1978. He used special raking light photography to reveal ancient folding
creases on the Shroud. He found persistent creases exactly where expected and in
the correct folding direction for just such a tetradiplon folding.
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The
scientific study of the Turin shroud is like a microcosm of the
scientific search for God: it does more to inflame any debate than
settle it.”
It is
simply not known how the ghostly image of a serene, bearded man was
made.”
Scientist-Journalist Philip Ball Nature, that most prestigious of scientific journals, that once had bragging rights to claim that the Shroud was fake, responding to new, peer-reviewed studies that discredit the carbon 14 dating and show that the Shroud could be authentic. WHAT WE KNOW IN 2005
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