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The Shroud Of Christ By Paul Vignon D.sc (Fr) Translated From The French With Nine Photogravure And Collotype Plates And Thirty-Eight Illustrations In The Text

Translation of "Le linceul du Christ." CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 9 CHAPTER I General Description and Examination of the Impressions visible on the Holy Shroud — The Appearance and Signification of the Marks 15 CHAPTER II The Reasons which cause us to attribute the Impressions on the Holy Shroud to the Body of Jesus Christ — The Wound-Marks of Christ — Examination of the Wound- Marks on the Shroud — A Study of the Gospels with regard to the Entombment of Christ 25 CHAPTER III Documentary History of the Holy Shroud 53 CHAPTER IV Descriptions of various Copies of the Holy Shroud 61 CHAPTER V The Face on the Holy Shroud, compared with imaginative Portraits 84 CHAPTER VI The Impressions are actual Negatives — These Negatives cannot be Paintings — These Negatives cannot have been produced by chemical Transformation — The Shroud has retained the Impression of a human Body — The Process necessary to produce Prints by simple Contact — The Impressions result from some Action without Contact 108 CHAPTER VII Experimental Researches as to negative Impressions resulting from chemical Action without Contact 154 PLATES I The Holy Shroud. From the Painting by Giuho Clovio (xvi. Century) Frontispie

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