The sudarium is a linen cloth measuring 85.5 by 52.6 cm. (or 34 by 21 in.). It was wrapped around the head of an adult male who had a beard and mustache with his hair tied in the back. Blood stains are present, but no image appears. The sudarium dates to the time of the Roman empire. The weave of the line uses a “Z twist,” indicating it was ...

Nov 16, 2020 · These two links (one from a news article of 2019 and the other from the Oviedo Cathedral's blog of 2020) seem to indicate that the Sudarium is unveiled during mass on the evening of 14 September and then on public display in the Cámera Santa until 21 September when mass in honour of San Mateo is celebrated and the Sudarium is displayed for the ...

The Sudarium is documented back to the 1st century, and laboratory tests show that it was used to wrap the same body and has the same rare AB blood group as the Shroud. (See Sudarium of Oviedo for more on this)

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Oct 30, 2007 · Polarized Image Overlay Techniques have been applied to the sudarium, comparing it to the image and bloodstains on the shroud. The frontal stains on the sudarium show seventy points of coincidence with the shroud, and the rear side shows fifty. The only possible conclusion is that the Oviedo sudarium covered the same face as the Turin Shroud."

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