The pilgrimage
Why this road exists
To pray the Passion with a particular face in mind, whether or not the cloth is first-century.
How the days are spent
Turin is also the city of Don Bosco, of the Consolata, of a working-class holiness.
Turin — the Shroud
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
The cloth that has the image of a crucified man, which the popes have knelt before, which carbon-14 has dated medieval, which blood and pollen and a hundred arguments have not finished. You go as a pilgrim, not as a lab assistant.
TurinFeast The Shroud is shown only in rare public ostensions. The chapel is visitable always.
The signs of this place
The apparition, the Gospel sign, the body, the image — whatever this place is known for, told as a file of its own.
ImageOpen / under study
The Shroud of Turin
Turin (earlier Lirey, Chambéry)First documented 1354; claimed as 1st century
The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth bearing the faint image of a crucified man. Many Catholics believe it may be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. The Church has not formally declared it authentic.
6 studied signs on this image
SaintChurch-approved
St. John Bosco
TurinDied 1888
Priest of street boys, founder of the Salesians, whose dreams — the two columns, the wolves turned lambs — guided an order, and whose life accumulated healings, multiplying chestnuts, and a reputation for reading the future of his boys.