vendredi 05 mai 2006 à 23:35

His announcement came in the wake of a Spanish TV report Wednesday on new research which shows that another shroud, venerated for 1,000 years in the Cathedral of Oviedo, Spain, is probably the cloth that covered Christ's head after his crucifixion.
Rodríguez, also a professor of civil law at the University of Valencia, has been studying the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin for 24 years. He told ZENIT that,
"according to scientific research carried out on this relic, it is far more probable that it belonged to Jesus Christ than to any other man." Likewise, Rodríguez maintains that "there are scientific proofs that show that the holy shroud is not a falsification, which explains why no one has been able to make a replica."
The professor, who has given more than 500 lectures on the Shroud of Turin, acknowledged that "the majority of people think that it is a false relic, because of the enormous publicity given to the carbon-14 dating done in 1988, which concluded erroneously that the holy shroud dates from the Middle Ages."
On the contrary, "subsequent rectifications published by the same scientists who carried out the analysis ... acknowledged the invalidity of the application of the carbon-14 method, as the fabric was contaminated by the gases of the fire that the holy shroud was exposed to, and by organisms like lichens and mushrooms."
The Centro Español here is studying the Shroud of Turin, the Oviedo shroud, and other relics attributed to Jesus Christ.
Rodríguez concluded that there is statistical evidence based on "rigorous studies of the characteristics of the cloth and its image, which shows a probability
as low as 200-billion-to-1 that it is not an authentic relic of Christ."
http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/0104/ZE010412.htm#4592
Ce message a été modifié par drzz - vendredi 05 mai 2006 à 23:40.