![]() Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. “So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. It also describes the first sight of Jesus’ burial shroud: We see this in one of the possible Gospel readings for Easter Sunday, as it describes how Peter and John found the empty tomb. It was, however, the great relic of the Resurrection, produced, most likely, by light shining from the Risen Christ, and it led the Peter and John to belief! It was a day to be with Christ in the tomb and we generally relate the Shroud to Christ’s suffering. It was a great moment of prayer: “Restore us, O God let thy face shine, that we may be saved!” (Psalm 80:3). ![]() My video stalled while panning over Christ’s face. It was a great grace to be able to make a virtual pilgrimage to the Shroud on Holy Saturday. How does it have the qualities of a photographic negative before anyone knew of that technology? Why is there no paint on it? It just didn’t add up. The image clearly is not a painting and we can’t even say how it was made. Even as a non-practicing Catholic-and a young kid-I was not convinced by the testing. They announced the results of the carbon dating testing that seemed to point to the burial cloth as a medieval fake (dating to the period of 1260–1390 AD). In elementary school, I remember watching an episode of Unsolved Mysteries on the Shroud of Turin. Image: Negative of the Shroud of Turin (detail) by Dianelos Georgoudis
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