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...Germany's Dr. Herman Moedder of Cologne's St. Francis Hospital found by a series of experimental "crucifixions," with eight volunteers, that a person bound to a cross by his hands must periodically writhe upward on the crossbar in order to breathe. The shroud's pattern shows trickles of blood from the wrists at angles of both 65 and go degrees - a fact which could be explained by such writhing, but which a forger would be unlikely to allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mystery of the Cloth | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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