Deliverance from the Cross — Page 63
IV SHROUD The entire material relating to the subject of the Holy Shroud of Turin, as it has come to be called, reproduced in this section, is extracted from Inquest on Jesus Christ by John Reban, as translated from the German by Willi Frischauer. The Foreword is by R. H. Havercraft. A short statement of the history of the shroud, so far as is known with certainty, is set out in chapter three of that book. Since 1568, the shroud has been kept in Turin Cathedral in the chapel of the Dukes of Savoy. Every thirty-three years it is exhibited to the public. When it was exhibited in 1898, some attempt was made to photograph it, but at that time photographic techniques were in their infancy. At the time of its next exhibition in 1931, steps were taken to subject it to minute photographic examination. A series of photographs were taken with the utmost care which revealed certain surprising and previously unsuspected features that enabled the students of the Shroud to go on to make certain astonishing deductions. The negative of one of the photographs revealed a most important feature of the Shroud, which is that a 63