Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 67
Chapter Five—Recent Discovery: Shroud of Jesus 67 for the last one thousand years. This cloth was sent to Constantinople in 438 A. D. by Queen Endoxi. It was originally found near the catacombs. It remained in Constantinople for seven hundred years. Finally De La Roche took it away with him after an attack on Constantinople. When the fire broke out, the cloth was in a silver box. As a result of the melting of silver it became slightly indistinct. But the marks of Christ’s body were still visible. The people of France earned a large sum of money by displaying this cloth. From France it was taken to Turin, and there it was taken out for exhibition after every thir- ty-three years. In 1898 A. D. an Italian advocate looked at the negative in the light of the sun, he was astounded to find that it bore an exact likeness to Christ. When the negative was printed, it showed the face of the man ( Jesus) whom no one had seen for the past 1900 years. In 1931 A. D. , when the cloth was again displayed, Guisepe Enrie, a photographer, took another photograph of the cloth with the help of bulbs operating at 6,000 and 20,000 volts supply in the presence of an important dig- nitary of the Church. This photograph brought to light a sensational fact, and demonstrated for the second time what Pia had already shown. The picture bears an exact likeness to the fact and body contours which the Church, for the last two thousand years, has been describing as those of Christ. When a man looks at the photograph which has been reproduced in the book Das Linnen Kurt Berna Stultgart