Shroud Of Turin To Go On Display

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Published: Mon, June 02, 2008 - 8:45 am
Last Updated: Monday, June 02, 2008 - 8:48 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Shroud of Turin will go on rare public
display again -- in two years.
The strip of linen that some believe was the burial cloth of
Jesus Christ was last shown to the public in 2000.
Pope Benedict made the announcement today at a special audience
for 7,000 pilgrims from Turin. He says he hopes to attend the
display himself.
The shroud, which is kept in Turin's Roman Catholic cathedral,
is about 14 feet long and 3-and-a-half feet wide. Believers say the
image on the cloth was left by Christ's body after he was taken off
the cross.
The shroud's age has long been a subject of debate. A
carbon-dating test in 1988 declared that it came from medieval
times. Another study says it originated around Jerusalem sometime
before the eighth century.


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