


In addition, the three-dimensional reconstruction made it possible to observe that, at the time of death, the Shroud Man leaned to the right, because his right shoulder was displaced so severely that he injured his nerves.” “On the Shroud, I counted 370 scourging wounds, without considering the sides, which the cloth does not reveal because it touched only the front and back of the body. Through the studies and the three-dimensional projection, Fanti could also record the numerous wounds on the body of the Man of the Shroud. And he had a regal and majestic expression.” Tall, but very robust, he was 1.80 m in height when the average height at that time was about 1.65 m. The professor, in an exclusive conversation with the Italian Magazine Chi, stated “According to our studies, Jesus was a man of extraordinary beauty. Giulio Fanti states that we are finally faced with a precise image of what Jesus was like, describing the statue as a three-dimensional representation of the life-size Man of the Shroud, made on the basis of precise measurements taken from the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion. Now science, using this sophisticated sculpture in 3D, confirms the tradition.

There is historical evidence of the shroud’s existence since the 14th century, although some historians say they can document its presence earlier, with stages in Jerusalem, Odessa, Constantinople and Athens.įanti explains that Christian tradition believes the image seen on the Shroud left by the body on the cloth to be that of the dead body of Christ crucified. “The work we did produced results that were compatible with each other, indicating a date around 33 BC, with an uncertainty of about 250 years.” Professor Giulio Fanti has been studying the Holy Shroud, and results of his studies in the past have determined that it is reasonable to date the Shroud to the first century AD, the time when Jesus of Nazareth lived in Palestine. The 3D image was presented recently on March 20 at the Bo Palace, of the same University, by a team who worked for two years together with the sculptor Sergio Rodella, under the direction of Giulio Fanti, professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements of the Department of Industrial Engineering of that Institution. Science cannot, until now, explain the nature of the image in the cloth, even after numerous teams have analyzed the Shroud.Ī team from the University of Padua (Italy), adds a new chapter in bringing the body of the relic to life, with a sculpture made with 3D technology. This is not the first time we have spoken about the Holy Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth that many faithful increasingly believe to have enveloped the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the tomb.

The image now reaches a new climax, with the exhibition of a three-dimensional sculpture of the human figure present in the Holy Shroud, the culmination of the work carried out by scientists of the University of Padua and the local hospital, where science ends up feeding the faith in an encounter with the God made Man. It was revealed in 1898, after the revelation of a negative – a photograph taken to the Shroud by Secondo Pia, an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. Fascination continues for the Shroud, stamped with the mysterious image of a naked body in the cloth, bearing the same characteristics of Jesus crucified.
