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Shroud of Turin tests miff scientists, religious scholars
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ROME (AP) - Experts on the Shroud of Turin said Wednesday they felt frustrated and betrayed to learn a Swiss textile expert had obtained Vatican approval to test the sacred cloth without involvement from the international scientific community.
The shroud is a strip of linen believers say was used to wrap the body of Jesus. Kept in the Cathedral of Turin, it is rarely displayed to the public.
Earlier this month, the Rome newspaper Il Messaggero said a well-known Swiss textile expert, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, had begun tests on the cloth and, as part of the research, cut out 30 patches woven into it in the 16th century.
Flury-Lemberg confirmed then that she had received Vatican approval to perform the tests. But she has refused to say exactly what her work has entailed.
Some experts worry that in the absence of any oversight, she may have damaged the cloth. In the past, tests on the cloth have involved a large committee of international scientists.
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Flury-Lemberg said Wednesday she would release photographs of her research next month.
“There are so many wrong things in the press,” she said by telephone from Bern, Switzerland. “Everyone’s speculating. I don’t want to give any news.”
Cardinal Severino Poletto, the archbishop of Turin and the shroud’s custodian, said in an interview with the Italian Catholic newspaper L’Avvenire that the Vatican approved the tests.
He would not discuss Flury-Lemberg’s procedures except to say her work was carried out in accordance with two Vatican conditions: that there be unanimous consent of the members of the Conservation Commission for the Shroud, a small group of experts overseeing the cloth, and that the cultural authorities of the Italian government be informed.
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