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AT the meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences on April 21, some remarkable photographs of brownish stains found on the “Holy Shroud” kept in the Treasure Chamber of Turin Cathedral, and traditionally said to be the winding-sheet of Christ, were exhibited in connection with a paper by Dr. P. Vignon, of which a translation from the current number of the Comptes rendus of the Academy is given below. Upon reproducing these stains by photography, Dr. Vignon found that he obtained a realistic picture of a human figure, and the suggestion is that the picture is actually a representation of the body of Christ, produced by radiographic action from o the body, which, according to ancient texts, was wrapped in a shroud impregnated with a mixture of oil and aloes. We give Dr. Vignon's paper, which it will be noticed is confined to an account of principles relating to radioactivity.
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M. Vignon's Researches and the “Holy Shroud” . Nature 66, 13–14 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066013a0
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