Next 'Holy Shroud' Viewing Exhibition Moved Up From 2025 to 2010

The Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. Those who thought they would have to wait another 15 years for the next Holy Shroud viewing are in luck. Pope Benedict XVI recently granted the request of the Archbishop of Turin to move the date up from 2025 to April 10, 2010. The 2010 Shroud Exhibition Reservation System on the Archdiocese of Turin website went online December 1, 2009, with consistently updated information to keep viewers up to date on the highly anticipated exhibition. For a definitive overview of the most studied artifact in human history, check out the Janson Media DVD Shroud, now available worldwide.

There is evidence that the Holy Shroud, venerated in France as early as 1350, is the same Shroud we see today preserved in Turin, Italy. Shroud takes the historical high ground as it presents the places, the written evidence, the changes of ownership, the various expositions and the first 1898 photograph that changed everything - into the realm of modern science and to worldwide attention for the very first time. This film is the most authentic and definitive program yet produced on the Holy Shroud.

The DVD features a one-hour documentary film, The Man of Pain, which was the Official Documentary of the 1998 Holy Shroud Exposition Committee and was granted the right to use the Vatican"s Jubilee 2000 logo. It is the only documentary presented in High Definition (HDTV) footage of the private exposition which took place on June 25, 1997 - and the only documentary to be filmed since the fire that badly damaged Guarini"s Chapel. Extra features include The 1998 Restoration History, The 2002 Restoration History, Iconographic Routes, Backstage at the Filming, Extra Interviews, An Interactive Map of Shroud History, and the short films, The Guarini Chapel and The Face of Christ.