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The medical-forensic study carried out jointly on the Shroud of Oviedo and the Turin Shroud not only reaffirms that both garments involved the same person, but also that, when he was already a corpse and standing upright, he suffered a penetrating wound that It would cross the right hemithorax, with entry through the fifth intercostal space and exit through the fourth, near the spine and the right scapula, leaving marks of blood clots and pleuropericardial fluid in both garments (in the sndone by its contact With the entrance and exit holes, and on the shroud with the exit).
The studies on the Shroud of Oviedo are directed by Alfonso Sánchez Hermosilla, UCAM researcher, forensic doctor of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Murcia, director of the Research Team of the Spanish Center of Sindonology (EDICES) and scientific advisor of the International Center of Sindonology of Turin.
Jesús García Iglesias, professor of mines at the University of Oviedo, is part of the research team, as well as members of EDICES Marzia Boi, palynologist and biologist;
Juan Manuel Miñarro, professor in the Sculpture Area of ​​the University of Seville;
Antonio Gómez Gómez and Felipe Montero Ortego.
It agrees with what is reflected in the Gospel of John, which in Chapter 19, Verses 33-34 states: "But when they came to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs: but one of the soldiers pierced him. Cost with a spear, and at the moment came blood and water. "
The research carried out consists of anthropometric, criminal, anatomical and anatomic-pathological studies of the Syndone and the Shroud, and its results are new advances of the research team of the UCAM that has been studying the Shroud of Oviedo and that previously found Other evidences that both garments involved the same person, being key for this the use of the scanning electron microscope that this University recently acquired, with the most advanced benefits especially for this purpose.
Through it have been studies of blood, presence of pollens, conservation of the textile (linen) and determination of organic and inorganic contaminants.
According to Sánchez Hermosilla, "the blood stains we have worked on have always been there, but no one has studied them, and they are the only ones of these characteristics. So far they have been attributed to marks caused by flogging wounds."
The spots noticed by the researchers and in which the study is centered share common characteristics and are very different from the rest, both because of their morphology and complexity after their macroscopic analysis, with a high blood concentration in the center and a clearer and more profiled siege .
This stain also becomes invisible if it is seen under an infrared filter, as is usual in stains caused by cadaverous blood, contrary to what happens with vital blood (the punctiform marks, for example, as a result of injuries attributed to the crown Of thorns).
There is only one spot on the shroud of the same characteristics, called "Spot on accordion", attributed to the same maculating origin and a consequence of having folded the fabric several times in the form of "clasp", remaining on the obverse of the great central spot.
In fact, the microscopic study of the samples, carried out with optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, "shows the presence of structures compatible with highly damaged human red blood cells, some of them hemolyzed, as well as with fibrin clots free of blood structures ".
The medical-forensic study describes in detail the tissues and organs that pierced the sharp object in its hypothetical trajectory.
He also points out that "especially the right atrium of the heart, in cadavers of persons who have suffered a long agony, very often present great clots of blood, very similar to those that formed the spot on the side of the Turin Sndone."
As well as "when passing through the right lung, the weapon also made its way through the intraparenchymal airways and, as a consequence, part of the organic fluids mentioned were thus opened in an upward trajectory as a result of the pressure Intrathoracic caused by the kinetic energy that the advance of the weapon transmitted to the corpse, these fluids traveled through the upper airways and finally they were also emitted by the mouth and nose of the corpse, causing new spots in these areas in the Shroud of Oviedo. Of course, when removing the gun, these fluids also came out through the inlet and outlet holes. "
The hypothesis is that the person who administered this "coup de grace" had experience, since placing the blade of the weapon in a horizontal position could easily avoid the ribs, without having to try several times, something that apparently did not happen, Appear what is called in the Forensic Medicine "scoring injuries".
Prior to this new finding, and also in the framework of this research, a pollen grain of a plant was discovered in the Oviedo Shroud which, according to EDICES palynologist Marzia Boi, is compatible with the botanical species Helicrysum Sp. Also identified in the Shroud (Turin Shroud).
In the same, it was ruled out that it was a posterior contamination, since it is attached to the blood;
That is, he came to the relic at the same time as blood, not randomly.
Source: UCAM
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