The Holy Shroud
From the studies of
Mons. Giulio Ricci,
Shroud researcherThe Shroud is a rectangular linen (m. 4,36 x 1,1), woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils and is the most eloquent corpus delicti used by researchers to reconstruct the offensive event it shows: the death on the cross. The crucified man, before his death, has suffered under a particularly cruel flagellation, a crowning with thorns (first ever registered by researchers in a crucifixion), an upward gouge in the side caused by a spear penetrating into the thoracic cavity and at last shrouded, naked, in a linen without being previously washed and covered with resins. The integrity of the shroud testifies that the body it shrouded never knew the corruption; otherwise the shroud itself would have been damaged.