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SHS Web of Conferences
Volume 15, 2015
2014 Workshop on Advances in the Turin Shroud Investigation (ATSI 2014)
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| Article Number | 00008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 15 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20151500008 | |
| Published online | 27 February 2015 | |
New coincidence between Shroud of Turin and Sudarium of Oviedo
1 Research Team of Spanish Center of Sindonology (EDICES), Madrid, Spain
2 EDICES, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
3 EDICES, Murcia, Spain
a Corresponding author: cbartagi@cofis.es
The Sudarium of Oviedo and the Shroud of Turin are two relics attributed to Jesus Christ that show a series of amazing coincidences announced in the past. In this contribution, we describe the X-ray fluorescence analysis carried out on the Sudarium. Among the chemical elements detected, calcium shows a statistically significant higher presence in the areas with bloody stains. This fact allows correlating its distribution with the anatomical features of the corpse. A large excess of calcium is observed close to the tip of the nose. It is atypical to find soil dirt in this zone of the anatomy, but it is just the same zone where a particular presence of dust was found in the Shroud. The very low concentration of strontium traces in the Sudarium matches also well with the type of limestone characteristic of the rock of Calvary in Jerusalem. This new finding adds to others recently released and it strengthens the tradition that both cloths have wrapped the body of Jesus of Nazareth.
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