A prolific author, he has published numerous biographies of personalities of the Ancien Régime, from L'Homme au masque de fer ("The Man in the Iron Mask") to Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, as well as Madame de Montespan. The book does not constitute a "coming out" of the author, an avowed Catholic, who is also a historian recognized by his peers. In contrast to the Catholic Church, which has cautiously ruled that the object is an image or an icon, and in opposition to a large majority of dating specialists who maintain that the cloth dates from the medieval period, the author firmly defends: 1) that we are dealing with a true "relic," dating from the beginning of the Christian era, 2) that the cloth held the body of a supplicant who could in all logic only be Jesus Christ. Petitfils, the Holy Shroud is infinitely more than a yellowed rectangular linen sheet, 4.42 meters long and 1.13 meters wide, bearing the blurred image (front and back) of a man with traces of wounds resulting from a crucifixion, kept in the Guarini Chapel of the Cathedral of St. He barely acknowledges on the margins that there existed, and still exist, "positivists, scientists and rationalists, for whom the Holy Shroud could by definition only be a fake, forged by some fanatical Christian from obscurantist times." Witness to the Passion of Jesus Christ"), presented as a "definitive investigation," the historian Jean-Christian Petitfils traces the path of the cloth in the same way that medieval writers wrote their golden legends, those biographies of saints exalting the purity of men of faith.įor the author, the shroud is a miracle and science confirms it. Témoin de la Passion de Jésus-Christ ("The Holy Shroud of Turin. In his latest book, Le Saint Suaire de Turin. In the history of religions, a miracle has one major virtue: It is an irrefutable proof of the sacred, and it serves to silence disbelievers. The Shroud of Turin would appear to be a miracle in the literal sense of the term. Subscribers only Pope Francis touches the Holy Shroud in the Cathedral of Turin on June 21, 2015. In his work, he mixes history, science and esotericism in the hope of proving that the cloth did indeed wrap the body of Christ after his crucifixion.īy Laurent Testot Published on January 1, 2023, at 9:00 am (Paris) The writer Jean-Christian Petitfils put the Holy Shroud back on the loom. Is the Shroud of Turin authentic? A new 'investigation' reopens the debate
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