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...whether the wafer he consecrated really became Christ's body, as church doctrine said it was. Miraculously at Bolsena, a small town near Orvieto, the Host began to bleed in Peter's hands. At Mass, spots of blood fell from the wafer onto the corporal, a white linen cloth upon which the chalice rests while on the altar...
...James A. Linen...
...Luke and John refer to the wrappings of Jesus' body in the plural ("linen cloths...
...result of an impression rather than a painting (though an impression might still be a forgery). According to a letter read at the Congress by Roman Catholic Professor Rudolf Kynek of Czechoslovakia, "We have treated corpses with myrrh and aloes, and when we placed them in linen an impression of the corpse could afterwards be plainly seen on the linen when we exposed it to light. As time went by ... when humidity covered it with invisible fine molds it became invisible to the naked...
Last week's conference closed without final proof either way, but with an official hope "that a way may be found to examine scientifically, religiously and historically those aspects of the holy linen which may lead to determination of its authenticity." Colored photographs, X-ray and chemical analyses seemed indicated, but much red tape needed unraveling before they would be forthcoming. The shroud, still the private property of ex-King Umberto II, has not been exhibited since the Holy Year...