The Turin shroud will be on display in 2015

In 2015, those who want to see for themselves the "Shroud of Turin" will have the opportunity to admire the supposedly shroud of Jesus when he was brought down from the cross and buried in a grave.

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On February 27, the Duomo church in Turin, northern Italy, where the cloth is being kept, declared, the cloth believed by many to have buryed the Lord and saved his image when he died would be displayed. for public visits from April 19 to June 24, 2015.

This is a rare event because before that, in the past more than a century, people have only opened their doors to visitors 5 times and the last time is 2010, attracting more than 2 million visitors in one exhibitions lasted seven weeks.

Pope Benedict XVI also visited the shroud for the first time it was displayed after being restored in 2002.

This time the Duomo church opened to 67 days to welcome the public is to celebrate 200 years of birth of Father Bosco, who was canonized for his charitable activities in the nineteenth century in Turin, and century commemorating the visit of his predecessor Benedict XVI.

The Turin Shroud is considered to shroud the body of Jesus and preserve his image when he dies.(Source: mywordswritten.org)

June 24 is the day of Saint John the Baptist (John the Baptist), patron saint of the city of Turin, and also the day of St. Bosco.

The visit to the Pope's Turin shroud is still unknown.

However, in March 2013, after taking the throne, in a message broadcast on Italy's RAI channel, Pope Francis I appeared with some images of the shroud. This was the second time in history that this relic was put on television after the first in 1973, after being allowed by Pope Paul VI.

Strictly protected in a bulletproof glass cabinet and fitted with an air conditioner to maintain the best temperature for storage, this cloth is believed by many to have been used to wrap up the corpse after him. taken down from the cross.

However, for centuries, the origin of the fabric, its date and whether or not the image of the man printed on the canvas is Jesus was not the subject of debate and Research of scientists in the world.

In 1988, three laboratories of Oxford, Tucson and Zurich universities published the results of the C14 isotope radioactivity test and concluded that this fabric was made during the period of 1260- 1390, that is, the fabric was forged in the Middle Ages.

But then, other scientists said that this result may be time-biased in about 1,100 years for many reasons, because of the presence of fungi and bacteria on the fabric surface after centuries Keep in different conditions.

The controversy has led to scientists' requests, asking for permission to conduct new experiments, but the Vatican has refused. Currently, there is no final conclusion about the shroud and any questions about it remain open.

So far, the Catholic Church has not officially confirmed nor claimed to reject the shroud. However, in 1958, Pope Pius XII approved the image of the man on the cloth as "Saint Jesus".

Recently, Pope Francis I and his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI described the Turin Shroud as "a symbol".