 The situation of the Face on this 4th application was given by the traces of the frown and the right supercilious arch, the rest of the stains were until then uncertain, since the Face occupied the same region of the Sudarium which was in contact with the wound on the flank during the second application.
| On this application the Sudarium was in the middle between the Face and the pole- carrier (litter, pallet) on which the head of Jesus was straighten up to put on the chin the bandage to fix the harness; the yellow arrows point out the border of this bandage, stained and humid as result of pressing the Sudarium against the lance wound on his flank (side). The mark of the pole appears in the middle of the forehead; on the other hand, the “3” wound, characteristic of the man on the Shroud, doesn’t appear, because the Sudarium was used to preserve the pole from the contact of the corpse, not to clean the Face; this, the head twist and inclination position Jesus had when he died, and the main application object, served the Sudarium to touch the Face only in a partial way. The tapped nostrils with a blood saturated gauze can be noticed. The blood stain on the chin, beneath this one, indicates that, the mouth opened as the head was raised, which revels this action took place recently dead Jesus, His Body not yet affected by the rigor mortis syndrome. |  Rollover and clic. |