Believed by some to be the burial garment of Jesus Christ, the Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth measuring over ...

Today, those who wish to view it can see it at Turin’s Chapel of the Holy Shroud. For a long time, the Catholic Church was largely silent on the shroud. And when popes did speak of it in the ...

The chapel is raised up behind the high altar of Turin Cathedral and opens into the state rooms of the royal palace, emphasising the importance of the Holy Shroud to the history and aspirations of ...

One struck me at once in examining the facsimile of the photographic negative plate of the Holy Shroud (facing p. 17). The body had been lying, of course, face upwards. I presume that if a corpse ...

If you only have time for one cultural site, the Chapel of the Holy Cross should be it. This stunning church – designed by sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude (a student of architect Frank Lloyd ...