
New Evidence for the Shroud of Turin (Fr. Andrew Dalton) | Ep. 382
Pints With Aquinas
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The History of the Shroud
There was a fire in 1532. These these nuns basically tended to the shroud after the fact. Did they add a strip of new material? This is one of the theories. There's a fun little story behind this. A woman who's watching TV says, that face convinces me that's Jesus. I got to study this thing. She gets a picture like a blown up image of the textile and then shows it to textile experts. They tell her about French invisible weave. The idea is that you would put one thread or one cloth next to another. You would unravel the threads on the one end, do the same on the new cloth, and then just splice the threads together
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