In Turin, Italy northwest of the city, since the 16th century is a jewel of great price in John cathedral affiliated to the chapel, worshipped by generations of christians, the Christian holy, is the world-famous "shroud of Jesus".

At the beginning of the first century AD, in the Palestinian areas today in Bethlehem, the name of the virgin Mary, by the holy spirit are pregnant and gave birth to a strange boy, he is the son of god, come in human incarnation of the savior, Jesus Christ.At the age of 30, Jesus began to preach in the region near the sea of galilee, and his collection of disciples together to spread the Gospel, to save human iniquity.With the spread of the Gospel, Jesus is admired for the locals.But Jesus and his disciples, caused the rabbi especially the hatred of the pharisees, they through one of the 12 disciples of judas betrayed, arrested him, handed him the Roman empire in the jewish governor pontius Pilate, and encouraged the pontius Pilate ruled that Jesus crucified the punishment of the cross.According to the new testament, the bible says: Jesus crucified on the cross, his disciples were scattered flee,The bodyThere is no one to gather."At this moment there was a certain rich man named Joseph, arimathea came to be, he is a disciple of Jesus.This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus, Pilate commanded him.And Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen, and in his own newThe grave, which he had hewn in the rock, and he rolled a big stone to the door of the tomb, went."(Matthew: chapter 27, 57 to 60).Three days later, a few condolences to cave women found the tomb opens, the body disappeared.Until Jesus appeared to them, Jesus miraculously raised.Since then, he appeared to his disciples, and said to them, "all authority in heaven and earth, have given to me.So you want to go to, let the nations be my disciple, in the name of father, son, and holy spirit of them to be baptized."The Christian faith is established.But Jesus about package bodies of the whereabouts of the linen, the bible no further explanation.

In the early 13th century, there was a chroniclers wrote a book called crowley, which recorded his in Constantinople in 1203, has seen a is said to be elongated linen shroud of Jesus.By the middle of the 14 century, in France a city belongs to the Lord Xia Erni Leon lai's church, christians found at the altar with a pale yellow linen, emblazoned with a can be identified as Jesus.As for why the shroud from east to Europe, the reason can only be speculated that was all sorts of plunderThe warThe frequent.In the 15th century, the shroud to the hands of the duke Louis.In 1532, the store has been a shroud of churchfire, boxes of the shroud of the silver burned drop on the shroud, shroud suffered some damage.People put out the fire with water, can also make left obvious stains on the shroud.Later, Louis and put the shroud of cloth to Italy of righteousness, in Turin cathedral in John.Since then, have been placed on the altar of the cathedral.

Jesus shroud 4.35 meters long, 1.09 meters wide, with a lashes and crucified the blood of images.Image is 1.8 meters tall, long hair hang down shoulder, arms crossed in the abdomen, in the head, hands, ribs and feet have clear red blood color piece, and what the bible says Jesus crucifixion at the same state.

The shroud was the legacy of Jesus Christ?For hundreds of years, theologians, historians, scientists of confusion around its authenticity, debate.Of all aspects of the pressure, and human curiosity, on September 29, 1986 in Turin, Italy held a special technical colloquia, hosted by the Pope academy of sciences, present at the meeting were the representative of the archbishop of Turin, the Pope academy of sciences, and scientists from countries such as France, Switzerland, the UK, a total of 22 people.Meeting an agreement, agreed to shearing stamps, the size of the sample by the world advanced ultra-high sensitivity accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) were determined.On April 21, 1998, the British museum of the archaeological authority with archbishop to Turin cathedral, the legend of Jesus was buried the shroud cut 7 cm long, 1 cm wide cloth, divided into three small pieces, unwittingly, by the other party, were sent to the United States at the university of Arizona, university of Oxford and the Swiss federal institute of technology in Zurich AMS dating laboratory tests.Experiments show that the three laboratories has reached the consistency of the results of various differences within 120.Shroud between A.D. 1260 to 1380 made a 95% chance of, and 100% of affirmative suggests that never before 1200 AD.On October 13, 1998, the archbishop of Turin Lester ray ROM in a press conference officially announced that it was for centuries as a holy shroud of Jesus, the Christian, not Jesus was buried, but medieval weave a fake.At this point, the valid of the shroud of Jesus argument seems to be the dust settles.

But soon, one scientist use "micro chemical method" again after the sampling analysis was carried out on the shroud, he surprisingly found that in 1998 the experiment, three laboratory test sample is only a shroud of a patch, and the new appraisal thinks, the main body part are much earlier than the patch.This patch is becauseThe fireDamaged to repair, when very fine, plus a very long time, just cut the patch before test.The experimental results show that the main body of the shroud s much earlier than the patch.The authenticity of a shroud of Jesus, is still a mystery now.

Jesus the authenticity of the shroud problem to christians, actually not so important, our belief is based on "justification by faith", on the basis of trust in god and love your neighbor as yourself.If over-pursue worship the holy things, not to low-level idol worship.