SHROUD OF TURIN PICTURE TOUR \u00a0<\/p>\n PAGE 1 of 5<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. John DeSalvo, the Director of the Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association<\/span>www.gizapyramid.com<\/a><\/span>, was also one of the scientists studying\u00a0 the Shroud of Turin for over 30 years.\u00a0 John is Executive Vice President for the Association of Scientists and Scholars International for the Shroud of Turin<\/em> (ASSIST), which is the largest and oldest Shroud research organization in the world.\u00a0 He has lectured nationwide on the Shroud and the International Platform Association designated him as one of the top 30 speakers in the nation in 1980.\u00a0 He has published several articles on the Shroud and is the contributing science editor for the book Sindon, a Layman’s Guide to the Shroud of Turin<\/em> (out of print).<\/span><\/p>\n This section on the Shroud of Turin is part of the web site of the<\/span>Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association<\/span><\/em><\/strong> This picture tour can also be reached directly at<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n BEGIN THE TOUR The Shroud of Turin is a piece of ancient linen cloth that measures about 14 1\/2\u00a0 feet long by 3 1\/2 feet wide (exact dimensions are 14′ 6″ long by 3′ 9″ wide), and on this cloth is a very faint imprint of a human being who appears to have been crucified.\u00a0 Legend has it that this Shroud is actually the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 The Shroud takes it’s name from its present location which is in the Cathedral of John the Baptist in Turin Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SLIDE 1 –<\/span>Present location of the Shroud in the Cathedral of John the Baptist. Photo taken during the 1978 public exposition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Historically, we can only document the precise location of the Shroud from 1357 to the present.\u00a0 This is important because if the Shroud is a forgery it would have to have been made prior to 1357.\u00a0 In that year, the first known public exposition of the Shroud was held in Lirey, France.\u00a0 From Lirey, the Shroud went to Chambery,\u00a0 France.\u00a0 While in Chambery, in the year 1532, there was a fire in the Chapel in which the Shroud was kept.\u00a0 Fortunately, very little damage was done to the Shroud.\u00a0 We will be looking at the damage on the Shroud due to this fire.\u00a0 Than in 1578 it was brought across the Alps to Turin, Italy where it remains to the present.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SLIDE 2 –<\/span>Locations of the Shroud from 1357 to the present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n This is a 17th century painting showing how the body of the man in the Shroud would have to have been wrapped in order to produce the imprints on the Shroud.\u00a0 The body was\u00a0 first placed on half the cloth with the head in the center, and then the other half of the cloth was folded over to cover the rest of the body.\u00a0 Notice how this would result in both a front and back imprint on the Shroud which would be head to head.<\/span><\/p>\n SLIDE 3 –<\/span>17th Century Painting of the Shroud<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This slide shows the Shroud as it would appear to the naked eye.\u00a0 The Shroud is marked with burns, scorches, and water stains from the 1532 Chambery fire.\u00a0 The two dark parallel lines running lengthwise are scorch marks from that fire.\u00a0 Framed between these lines is the faint body image, both frontal and dorsal.\u00a0 The triangular shaped areas are patches sewn on in 1534 to cover up the areas destroyed by the fire.\u00a0 These patches were removed in 2002 which we will discuss.\u00a0 The Shroud was folded up and a corner was burnt by melted silver and this produced the regular pattern of triangular shapes that you see.\u00a0 The several large diamond shaped areas are water stains.\u00a0 There are also areas that appear to be blood.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SLIDE 4 –<\/span>The Shroud as it appears to the naked eye<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Shroud is amazing because only in the last 100 years has man developed the technology necessary to unlocks its secrets.\u00a0 In 1898\u00a0 a remarkable discovery was made.\u00a0 In that year,\u00a0 during a public exposition of the Shroud,\u00a0 the first photographs\u00a0 were taken by a lawyer named Secondo Pia.\u00a0 As he was developing his negative plate, instead of seeing a faint, flat image of a human being, he saw a clear and well defined portrait of a human being with relief and depth.\u00a0 He thought he was seeing a miracle but it didn’t take him long to realize what had happened. There, on his negative plate was a positive image.\u00a0 That is a true image with lights and shadows in there correct relationship.\u00a0 If he had a positive image on his negative plate, that meant he must have photographed a negative image since you would get a reversal of lights and shadows on the negative.\u00a0 Thus, this mean that the Shroud body image was similar to a photographic negative.\u00a0 How could this be since photography was not invented until the 1800’s and we know the Shroud existed at least since 1357, hundreds of years before the invention of photograph.\u00a0 Go to Slide 6 to see what appeared on Secondo Pia’s negative.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SLIDE 5 –<\/span>The frontal image of the Shroud as it appears to the naked eye<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The same frontal image as it appears on the photographic negative.\u00a0 Notice the body is now a positive image.\u00a0 The lights and shadows are in their correct relationships<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SLIDE 6 –<\/span>The frontal image of the Shroud on the negative plate<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Comparisons of the shroud as it appears to the naked eye (left) and the image on a photographic negative (right).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SLIDE 7 –<\/span>Comparisons of negative and positive images<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/span>\u00a0WITH DR. JOHN DESALVO<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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