An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake.
The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ.
A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, Garlaschelli made available to Reuters the paper he will deliver and the accompanying comparative photographs.
The Shroud of Turin shows the back and front of a bearded man with long hair, his arms crossed on his chest, while the entire cloth is marked by what appears to be rivulets of blood from wounds in the wrists, feet and side.
Carbon dating tests by laboratories in Oxford, Zurich and Tucson, Arizona in 1988 caused a sensation by dating it from between 1260 and 1390. Sceptics said it was a hoax, possibly made to attract the profitable medieval pilgrimage business.
But scientists have thus far been at a loss to explain how the image was left on the cloth.
They placed a linen sheet flat over a volunteer and then rubbed it with a pigment containing traces of acid. A mask was used for the face.
PIGMENT, BLOODSTAINS AND SCORCHES
The pigment was then artificially aged by heating the cloth in an oven and washing it, a process which removed it from the surface but left a fuzzy, half-tone image similar to that on the Shroud. He believes the pigment on the original Shroud faded naturally over the centuries.
They then added blood stains, burn holes, scorches and water stains to achieve the final effect.
The Catholic Church does not claim the Shroud is authentic nor that it is a matter of faith, but says it should be a powerful reminder of Christ's passion.
One of Christianity's most disputed relics, it is locked away at Turin Cathedral in Italy and rarely exhibited. It was last on display in 2000 and is due to be shown again next year.
The accuracy of the 1988 tests was challenged by some hard-core believers who said restorations of the Shroud in past centuries had contaminated the results.
The history of the Shroud is long and controversial.
After surfacing in the Middle East and France, it was brought by Italy's former royal family, the Savoys, to their seat in Turin in 1578. In 1983 ex-King Umberto II bequeathed it to the late Pope John Paul.
The Shroud narrowly escaped destruction in 1997 when a fire ravaged the Guarini Chapel of the Turin cathedral where it is held. The cloth was saved by a fireman who risked his life.
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Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin
Exam Life Is Sunnatullah
Make us who claim a Muslim and believer sekirannya need to know about the examination and understanding of the nature of life. because faith is not recognized as just before the exam proved the gods.
Weighing the test in accordance with the quality of one's weight. increasingly strong in the faith also increasingly heavy burden.
if we look at and consider this life is a test of whether it is a form of pleasure or of ugliness.
some form of testing which is around us that we might understand:
~ Suffering
~ Family and Children
~ Treasure
~ Personality
~ Asylum Aqidah
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The True Faith, Bringing Out the Good Charity
Faith is the justification that there is a god in your hearts to the Almighty and His Messenger, there is no doubt at all. unshakable belief by whoever. after that verbal and physical come to see, and as such pembukti of faith, that faith along with increasing bertamba good deeds, and faith that will berkuang along with frequent disobedience undertaken.
Therefore, do not say when the only faith that utter verbal. so too when he confessed his faith, while not obey physical laws exalted gods.
True faith is then accompanied by good deeds, will give birth and raise the good deeds the next. and charities that are continuous, not just one time, or only certain conditions, then stopped.
Faith that does not go up into the liver, often easy to waver. ai will be doing a good deed in a certain time only, just to reveal the good of birth alone, just looking for worldly advantage, and usually do not stay istiqomah.
Faith is not pervasive in the heart, will make people more difficult and heavy in carrying Islam, especially if their welfare is threatened because of Islam. then he would soon accuse Islam as the culprit, then leave the race out of Islam. This is a loss of the world and the hereafter.
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THE GENERATION OF SUBSTITUTE
Lately Indonesian man presented with a child plays on the political stage, especially during the election, pileg, also presidential election. They competed in the figure as a leader demonstrates a proper ideal and appropriate elected by the people. this stage the country's political drama.
Starting from imaging a leader close to the people, firmly in the act, and intelligent in thought and action. all ideal. all talking care of the people. really so? only God and him who knows.
However, if we look back, it just seems to be gambarang dreams to fruition the promise. The image of a prosperous country under the ideal leader as above only a delusion. In fact, in the negeriini many leaders do not have the ability to lead. How many officials in this country, but how many are failing.
At present, our beloved nation and is proud of the birth of hope many leaders who have the soul of leadership. A century ago we met in the rows of gold history of this country about the figure of a leader who has the leadership, there is Diponegoro, Cut Nyak Dien, etc..
Asa must be kept in wage, despite the fact helter skelter and ragged tatters is we face today. Become the foundation of economic destroyed by uncontrolled inflation, clean politics always dreamed of was gone by the soap opera "beef trade", and the law made the castle, crumbling because judges and prosecutors "trading services". Oh my country.
But once again hope to remain enforceable despite almost collapsing "smell" the earth. Later, with all confidence will be born and born leader who has the ability to lead in an enlightened morality frame by godlike values. This is the future that will be a successor generation.
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Learning From the Face
When berjuman with people, we can learn the science of face, because each face yag impact different to us. There is a reassuring, there is a soothing, there is a menggeikan, there yag disturbing, and some are scary. Scary? Why? Is it because of his nose? of course not! Because the nose is tiny, but reassuring. Some Menghujam sharp eyes, but soothing. There was a black skin, but with authority.
If today we managed to find a reassuring face of a person, then find out why he could have a face like that. of course we will respect for him. What a genuine smile, radiant face that looked like anyone who looked at her happy. Conversely, what if we looked at the opposite face? The grim faces, the structure he snapped, his eyes were cruel, cynical smile, and his attitude was not friendly. This too we need to learn.
Take advantage of the face was reassuring and soothing part of our face, and throw away the face is not reassuring. There is nothing wrong if we evaluate ourselves in the mirror. Ask, look like what was there at this face.
For a face to a smile that already exists, then stay longer increasing the quality of the smile, so much more sincere. Because enyum not just lift the end of the lip, but the main thing is the desire of others happy. Prophet Muhammad gave great attention to every person she met that person feel satisfied. no wonder when I look and act turned out to be attributes of the glory that he demonstrated. It was a big influence on attitudes and feelings of people who talk to.
Kemuramdurjaan, inconvenience and anxiety that arise because we do not think people who have before us as the most important. Hence, we often see is only half an eye, speaking only half attention. For example, when there was someone who came over, we said the it while reading the newspaper. whereas, if we had not put someone else, then the flow of words, how to look, how to behave, it will not have the power to touch and emit a strong power.
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