Highlights from the entire trip are posted here, http://gallery.me.com/markarmstrong2#100392
For excellent websites about the Shroud of Turin see:
Man of Pain, ping!
Most complete article I’ve seen on these two images. Thanks very much for posting it.
Another for your list!
**Like the Shroud, the Sudarium has been studied by science. Scientific studies have shown that the Sudarium and the Shroud were in contact with the same AB blood. There were over 120 points of match between the blood wounds on the Sudarium and the Shroud. With a complete match for the cap of thorns placed on Christ’s head.**
Or maybe someone wanting to become locally famous for ‘finding’ the graveclothes of the Christ in about 100A.D. or thereabouts, used a subject (possibly unwilling. possibly dead) to make these graveclothes.
**The best explanation for why there is no reversed image on the Sudarium like the Shroud is that it was likely removed before Jesus was shrouded.**
Re-read above possible explanation.
**It explains why it was folded and not with the linen cloth when Peter and others entered the tomb.**
Explains what?? If the headcloth was placed about the head, then removed (before the large cloth was wrapped around the body), and then wrapped up and laying in a separate spot by the preparers, then why would John write about that particular fact as though it was a surprising part of the whole shocking scene?
And, yet another Shroud ping.
PING!