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Sorry I got that wrong! Thanks for the correction -- Best, George
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George FERZOCO
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On 24 Mar 2008, at 16:44, Rosemary Hayes-Milligan and Andrew Milligan
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> George I sent my previous note before this arrived. I don't think
> the Oviedo cloth is the same as the Veronica. the Veronica is,
> traditionally, said to be a cloth that wiped the face of Jesus on
> his way to the cross and was left with an image of that face. My
> son tells me there are two possible Veronicas in St Peter's. The
> Orviedo cloth is claimed to be the burial face cloth - as listed in
> John.
>
> Rosemary
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] Shroud of Turin
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>> The programme also made the claim that the Veronica has been in
>> Oviedo since the fifth century, and that a minute comparison of
>> the main bloodstain thereon with the main one on Christ's head as
>> it appears on the Shroud of Turin shows the two stains to have
>> almost identical outlines. (It would make sense that the
>> Verionica's stain be larger than the one on the Shroud, given its
>> direct contact with the body.)
>>
>> This led to the hypothesis that the Shroud had to have existed
>> from at least the same time as the Veronica, i.e. the fifth century.
>>
>> George
>>
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>> George FERZOCO
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