title: Sacred Blood, Sacred Image : The Sudarium of Oviedo, New Evidence for the Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin
author:  Janice Bennett 
description: Janice Bennett started out as a graphic artist with several companies, which led to the formation of her own studio. She began to study Spanish in 1990, and was awarded a Master of Arts in Spanish Literature from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1997. She has been teaching Spanish Literature for the past five years, and has written a guide to literary analysis. She has traveled extensively in Spain, including five visits to the Cathedral of Oviedo, and has been translating the work of the Spanish Center of Sindonology for several years. Her most recent translation is the photographic guide to the Exposition of the Sudarium in the year 2000, by Jorge-Manuel Rodrguez Almenar.
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  > This novel is a story. It is interested in the interplay between faith,
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  (C) Shane Amsterdam 2018 -- all rights reserved
  
  > A ttached to the Turin Cathedral in northern Italy is a fortress-like
  > citadel called the Duomo di san Giovanni. Behind its protective walls is the
  > holiest of ancient relics—the Holy Shroud of Turin. This is the burial
  > shroud of Jesus Christ, still retaining His image, still flecked with His
  > blood. On the night of May 19, 2012, the Duomo was infiltrated from below. A
  > thief came from the ancient crypt system underneath the cathedral, crept
  > into the main chapel and shot the guard stationed there. She then showed
  > extraordinary strength—inhuman—to shatter the protective 