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The mystery of the Shroud of Turin: the definitive investigation by Jean-Christian Petitfils

2022-08-12T04:39:26.204Z


INTERVIEW – Historian Jean-Christian Petitfils has been passionate about the mystery of the Shroud of Turin for over forty years. He publishes in a few days a book-investigation which leads to the conclusion that the shroud has all the characteristics of authenticity.


LE FIGARO -.

You are a historian of the Ancien Régime, but after your “Jesus” published in 2011 and your “Love Dictionary of Jesus” published in 2015, you are leaving your specialty for the third time…

JEAN-CHRISTIAN PETITSON-.

Without a doubt.

You will note, however, that in the two works cited I have already devoted several pages to this emblematic relic of Christianity which never ceases to question History and science.

The question is whether this great sepulchral linen, 4.40 m long by 1.10 m wide, which presents, in a color varying from beige to sepia, the ventral and dorsal faces of a crucified dead, flagellated, tortured, with all the signs of the Passion, served well for the burial of Jesus on the evening of April 3 of the year 33, after the descent from the Cross.

I have been interested in this astonishing mystery for forty-four years, going through French and foreign studies, specialized journals, conference proceedings, expert reports, noting the progress...

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