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did not die on the cross has challenged the Vatican to reexamine the Shroud believed to have wrapped Christ's body. . The leading paragraph said: Kurt Berna, author of four books on the Shroud, says the blood-stains on the cloth prove Christ was still alive when taken down from the cross. He went to the Vatican yesterday and gave a 20 page pamphlet containing photographs and documentations to Monsignor Charles. Moeller. The Vatican made no immediate comment. . Again the story seemed to die down, at least for five months. Then in December 1969 Berna got another tip from a source he refused to identify; a high Vatican official was reputed to have said that the Holy Church cannot be split and teach that our Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross to free us from our sins, and at the same time worship a shroud in which no corpse ever lay. A radical solution must be found here. . Allow me an interruption here. Looking back from 1978, this “radical solution" perhaps was to throw me, Hans Naber called Kurt Berna, in prison and to take away my honour and dignity in the belief that this will annihilate my discovery. . There is ample circumstantial evidence in West Germany to support this; but then that is another theme. Let us continue with Wilcox. . Berna called the Zurich branch of Reuters, the English news service. The Shroud, was going to be destroyed, he told the Reuter's reporter, "for how else are the words radical solution to be understood?” Vatican officials had already tried to harm the Shroud once, he added, and this time he had a quote to prove it. Reuters convinced of the reasonableness of his previous stories, sent this one to its subscribers around the world. At last the Turin authorities were forced to admit what they had previously denied. On January 6th, 1970, Cardinal. Pellegrino released through his curia a short statement to the effect that on June 16th 1969 the Shroud casket had been opened, and that no, the cloth had not been destroyed; and that experts have been asked to make suggestions how better the holy relic might be preserved for possible future studies. . Were you there when they photographed my Lord? was the title of an article in the August 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. In it journalist Karl E. Meyer recounted not only the ecclesiastical cover-up of the 1969 Shroud Commission and. Kurt Berna's theory on the non-death of Jesus on the cross 157