which received the 'trial by fire' on a sudarium of Jesus ordered at around that time by the Muslim Caliph Mu'awiyah, as described by direct eyewitness French bishop Arculf to Abbot Adamnan of Iona.

When the Sudarium of Oviedo - the venerable cloth that once covered Jesus Christ’s face on the cross - is stolen from a cathedral in Spain, it sparks a series of grisly murders. Each victim is killed

between the Shroud and the Sudarium (a paper also presented at St Louis), and Orit Shamir illustrated and compared 1st century Jewish and Roman burial textiles. (www.futuroquotidiano.com) PAGE 6

count of the sudarium being present c.AD570 in a cave convent on the banks of the Jordan. This river is sacred to the Mandeans, i.e. the Nazarene community, and symbolises those limpid light worlds

and Mark Guscin’s work on the Sudarium of Oviedo has opened up a whole new context for exploration, geographical, historical and cultural. ! Besides these, my qualifications as an expert on the Shroud

18. "The Second International Conference on the Sudarium of Oviedo", http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/n65part6.pdf, (2007). 19. Mullis, K. B., The Polymerase Chain Reaction, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA (1994)

and the legend of Veronica’s ‘sudarium’ were indications that this was not unreasonable. He also wondered if, since there were certainly other ‘authentic’ burial shrouds already in existence,

thousand years ago, such as the Sudarium of Oviedo.” The Power of Few, Vivendi Entertainment (Blue-Ray) ! “Spies, cops, holy fools and well-armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery

gospel narratives and show how a sudarium was placed over Jesus’ head before burial and how the body was placed in a shroud. This said, the film is still excellent. To my mind, it portrays the essence

purported 'sudarium' preserved at Oviedo, Spain, which he believed to have been used with the Shroud when Jesus was laid out in death. He argued that some of the blood-flows on the Oviedo cloth match