23th application of the Sudarium: to cover the immodest parts18/04/2009home|previous|next

At the end of the preparation of the Body, the genitals were covered with the Sudarium for the intimate funereal ceremony, during which flowers were thrown all around his body, and their traces have been found on the Shroud also.

Absorbing humidity through a ritual aspersion, the Sudarium gathered great amount of accumulated blood around the wounds of the wrists and on the inner surface of the thighs. Since the application was only to cover and not to clean up, blood stains remained, particularly on the left wrist wound, which was the most injured, for Jesus carried his whole Body on it, so he could breathe, blood that would had been transferred to the Shroud for being, yes, this one, wet.

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