A life-size replica of the Shroud of Turin will visit St Aloysius Catholic College’s Middle Campus in Huntingfield as part of a tour around Tasmanian Catholic schools and parishes.
The Man of the Shroud Exhibition will visit the Church of the Apostles in Launceston, Marist Regional College in Burnie, St Brendan-Shaw College in Devonport, St Patrick’s College in Prospect Vale, Guilford Young College Hobart campus and St Aloysius from July 21 to August 21.
The Shroud of Turin is popularly believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
The real Shroud is a rectangular piece of blood-stained linen cloth bearing the image of a crucified man.
It has been housed in Turin, Italy since 1578.
Recent studies found the cloth was around 2000 years old, and not a medieval forgery as previously thought.
The replica Shroud is approximately 14 feet, or 4.2 metres, long.
“Modern science has completed hundreds of thousands of hours of detailed study and intense research on the Shroud,” said Martin Tobin, Director of Catholic Identity and Evangelisation for Catholic Education Tasmania (CET) and chief organiser of the exhibition in Tasmania.
“It is, in fact, the single most studied artefact in human history, and we know more about it today than we ever have before.”
The exhibition was put together by the Othonia Institute, part of the Science and Faith Institute, a team of specialists on the Shroud at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome.
Following the Holy Shroud Conference in Sydney last month, Tasmania is the second location in Australia to host the exhibition.
