Religion The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ? "The very idea that the linen cloth in which Jesus Christ was wrapped in the tomb should have survived to this day would seem incredible. It demands even more of human credulity that the cloth bears a photographic likeness which would seem to be that of Jesus as he lay in the tomb. Yet it is on the evidence of these two seemingly impossible facts that this book has been written." So states author lan Wilson, an authority on the subject who has studied and written about the Holy Shroud for years. In this book he traces the history of the cloth from its creation almost two thousand years ago. He proposes ingenious solutions to the gaps in its history-explanations that link the Shroud to the Mandylion that belonged to the Emperors of Con-stantinople, to legends of Veronica's Veil and the Holy Grail, as well as to the powerful Knights Templar of medieval Europe. The mystery surrounding the Shroud's authenticity has baffled scientists and historians for many years. A work of distinguished scholarship, with more than forty pages of illustrations, THE SHROUD OF TURIN has been hailed as a fascinating, intriguing, and timely work which will no doubt be consulted for a long time to come.

ISBN: 0385150423