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...14TH CENTURY SKEPTIC One of the first universally accepted documentations of what we now know as the Shroud of Turin happens to be a letter declaring it a fraud. In 1389 Pierre d'Arcis, then Bishop of Troyes, described a "twofold image of one man, that is to say, the back and the front...thus impressed together with the wounds which he bore." The linen cloth had occupied a place of honor in a church in the tiny French town of Lirey since the 1350s; D'Arcis, who was writing to his Pope, complained that "although it is not publicly...
What D'Arcis's letter sketched out, documents left by 16th century nuns described in detail: the 14-ft.-long, herringbone-twill linen cloth of which the bishop spoke did bear the image of a naked and bearded man about 6 ft. tall, hair in a loose ponytail, back apparently scourged with a multithonged whip, hands crossed modestly before him. The figure was already faded then: a more recent witness described it as having "both the color and character of faint scorch marks on a well-used ironing cover." But not so faint that, D'Arcis excepted, people doubted...
...Bishop Eddie L. Long, New Birth's pastor, led the congregation, or audience, in a confession of faith in Jesus, telling the participants that if this was their first time professing faith in Jesus, they had been saved that day. Not surprisingly, within days of the assembly, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Atlanta chapter, joined together to assault the school's decision to bring direct Protestant dogma into the public school system. Editorials rang out for protection of the First Amendment on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
...Reading resident reported that her motor vehicle was stolen from lot 5 on Bishop Allen Drive. The owner notified the Cambridge Police Dept. at 3:10 a.m. that she found her motor vehicle parked in lot 6. The report was canceled...
...Cole's class yesterday, Koethe cited T.S. Eliot '10 and Stevens as major influences, as well as Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery '49 and William Wordsworth...