Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 151
Shroud started around November 1948. These began after I had read in a Christian weekly about the Shroud for the first time in July 1948. An excellent account was published in 1977 by the aforementioned US religious editor Robert K. Wilcox, in his book called Shroud published by the Macmillan Publishing Co. , New York and also Collier Macmillan Publishers in London. Wilcox, in his book has set out many facts and events around the Holy Shroud and he also reports facts about what I saw. Permit me to reiterate here and state what I saw and which I can prove. The description of what I saw and brief representations of my discoveries about the Holy Shroud form the basis of the book called Shroud. It is better that. I should give you his words; not all but some of the details mentioned, and you should bear in mind that because he is a newspaper editor, details are collated in order of importance. . Let us start from page 42 of his Shroud where Wilcox writes:. The person who exploded the secrecy of the 1969 Shroud. Commission he said he had been tipped off by an official in. Turin who wished to remain anonymous, was Kurt Berna, a. German Sindonologist. On June 16th 1969, the first day of the study, Berna sent leaflets and releases charging that the Church was going to alter or destroy the shroud. One reason for his concern was that the shroud proved that Jesus did not die on the cross. News media in Turin and Rome picked the story up and sent it out over the global wire service. The Vatican quickly denied the charges and the story seemed to die down. . On July 28th, forty days after the secret study had been completed, Berna showed up at the Vatican gates with a briefcase full of documents and a photographer. Monsignor Charles. Moeller, Under Secretary of the Vatican's chief agency concerning doctrine, invited Berna inside the complex, but when he was photographed accepting Berna's documents, the story went around the world. United Press International headed its story:. The President of the Foundation for the Holy Shroud in. Switzerland submitted documents to the Vatican which he said prove that Christ was alive when he was removed from the cross. This contradicts the belief of the Roman Catholic. Church. It would mean that Christ recovered from wounds and did not rise from death itself. There was no comment from the Vatican. The Associated Press story had the same tone and substance: A German author who contends Jesus Christ 156