Monday, April 25, 2011

Jesus Rose, Where is the Evidence?

At Mass on Sunday, something hit me as Father was reading the Gospel. It said that Simon Peter ran into the tomb and saw his burial cloths, but the cloth that was on Jesus' head was rolled up in another place. (John 20:1-9). If someone were to have stolen Jesus' body, why would they have taken time to roll His cloths? But when I started doing some research, I found out that there is more in-depth evidence about the cloths. One cloth is the Sudarium, or the cloth around Jesus' head, and the other is the Shroud of Turin. These two cloths prove it was a Roman crucifixion, and there was no evidence of the legs being broken. Being the critical "scientific" thinker, I was intrigued by two things:

1. The concrete evidence: The blood types found in both cloths were the same, type AB, which is common in Middle-Eastern people. The pollen samples in the cloths match the type of pollen found in and around Palestine. Also, the linen or material is the exact same between the cloths.

2. They were found in different places, just as they were found in different places when Simon Peter discovered them in the tomb.

"The Sudarium and the Shroud

Many of the stains on the Sudarium match those on the head portion of the Shroud of Turin. Though the Shroud had been carbon-dated (1988) to the 14th century, subsequent studies in 2005 suggest that the segment of the cloth used in the 1988 carbon dating was from a patch repaired during the Middle Ages.[4] Many believe that both cloths covered the same man. In 1998, blood tests done on both the Sudarium and the Shroud confirmed that the blood stains on both cloths were of the same type: AB, a common blood type among Middle Eastern people but fairly rare among medieval Europeans.[5]
Pollen residues on both the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium provide strong evidence that both were at one point in the Palestine area.[6]
The most important physical evidence of a connection between the two relics is that the material of the cloth is identical, although there are differences in the manner of weaving" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin).

So, just some food for thought.

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