Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit the Shroud of Turin the spring of 2010. Largely dismissed as a hoax after being scrutinized using Carbon-14 dating techniques, more recent research is validating the Shroud's authenticity on several fronts. (The portion of the Shroud used for samples sent to labs came from a corner most contaminated - that is: held onto - over its long history.)One of the 2002 team members who helped clean and preserve the Shroud, renowned textile expert, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, announced that she had seen seams used in the Shroud only once prior: in a piece of 1st century fabric found atop Masada in Israel. French scientist Thierry Castex has revealed that on the shroud are traces of words in Aramaic spelled with Hebrew letters.
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