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water stains
Until recently, it was assumed that the water mark stains on the cloth were from the dousing of the fire in 1532. However, in 2002, Aldo Guerreschi and Michele Salcito concluded a study (presented at the IV Symposium Scientifique International in Paris) showing that many of the stains stem from a, likely, much earlier time because the symmetries correspond more to the folding that would have been necessary to store the cloth in a clay jar (like cloth samples at Qumran) than to that necessary to store it in the reliquary that housed it in 1532.
There are clearly two distinctive, noticeably different folding patterns shown by the water stains.
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© 2005 Daniel R. Porter, Bronxville, New York
