St. Martha Church, 11301 Academy Road, will host Shroud Encounter on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The big-screen experience uses more than 200 images. The program is a production of the Shroud of Turin Education Project Inc. and will be presented by international expert and author Russ Breault.
The Shroud of Turin is the most analyzed artifact in the world yet remains a mystery. The 14-foot-long linen cloth that has been in Turin, Italy for more than 400 years bears the faint front and back image of a bearded, crucified man with apparent wounds and bloodstains that match the crucifixion account as recorded in the Bible.
A team of 33 scientists in 1981 concluded it was not the work of an artist.
Scientists with Italy’s Institute of Crystallography have used a new technique called Wide Angle X-ray Scattering, which measures the amount of natural aging in linen. They determined the amount of aging seen in fibers from the Shroud are compatible with a first-century linen.
For more information, visit ShroudEncounter.com. ••
