Schwortz Collection, STERA, Inc.) There is something missing from the Shroud of Turin. The Taizé Community’s “Pilgrimage of trust on Earth” will be hosted for the first time in Turin. Schwortz was the official documenting photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project in 1978the first extensive scientific examination of one of the holiest relics of Christendom, which is housed in the Turin Cathedral in Italy. Besides workshops and exchanges, there will also be time for contemplation on the Shroud. The Church of Turin is preparing to welcome thousands of young people in homes and communities. Many Taizé prayer meetings are also organized in Turin itself.Īrchbishop Nosiglia will hold a press conference on January 3 in Turin to present the initiatives related of next year’s “Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth”. Numerous groups of young people from Italy’s Piedmont region - of which Turin is the capital - travel regularly to participate in Taizé’s annual 'Pilgrimage of trust on Earth'. Pope Benedict ‎XVI described the cloth as an icon “written with the blood” of a crucified man.‎Īrchbishop Nosiglia noted that Turin and the ecumenical Taizé Community have a bond that has lasted for decades. When ‎Pope Saint John Paul II saw the shroud in 1998, he said the mystery surrounding the cloth forces questions about ‎faith and science and whether it really was Jesus' burial linen. Previous popes have also visited the northern city during earlier displays of the Shroud. “The Shroud,” he said, “attracts people to the face and tortured body of Jesus and, at the same time, urges us on toward every person who is suffering and unjustly persecuted.” “It urges us on in the same direction as Jesus’ gift of love.” However, at the end of the Mass in the square that followed, he regarded the Shroud as an icon of Christ’s love. Visiting the city, June 21-22, Pope Francis prayed silently for several minutes before the Shroud without any comment. The last time it was on display was from April 19 to ‎June ‎‎24, 2015, ‎in the cathedral of Turin. Next year will be the fifth time that the shroud will be on public display since 2000. There is no official teaching or dogma on the authenticity of the Shroud, which is housed in the Cathedral of Turin. The Taizé Community has chosen the northern Italian city of Turin as the venue of its next meeting of Europe’s young people, scheduled from December 28, 2020, to January 1, 2021. The announcement of the extraordinary display of the revered cloth was made by Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of Turin at Wroclaw, Poland, where this year’s annual meeting of Europe’s young people, known as the “Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth”, is currently taking place.

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