DUOMO SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST - THE HOLY SHROUD
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Gothic style cathedral with a chapel with an air-conditioned safe and a silver box.
Set in the heart of the ancient city, a few steps from the Roman ruins, the cathedral is the only Renaissance architectural example in Turin. It was built in 1498 in honour of Saint Jean-Baptiste, patron of the city. An inscription on the facade recalls its founder, Domenico della Rovere. The interior features several Gothic elements. In the 1997 th century, Guarino Guarini added behind the master-altar a chapel today destroyed by a fire, which, in, ravaged this church with black marble destined to shelter the shroud. Restoration works work to recreate the masterpiece, but new technologies do not replace Guarini's genius and work continues indefinitely.
The shroud. In the church, a reproduction (scale 2/3) of the original relic is observed, preserved in the chapel and protected by an air-conditioned trunk and a silver box. This linen sheet is, according to the Christian tradition, the shroud of which the body of Christ would have been wrapped up. Inherited by the house of Savoy in 1453, the sheet was left to the Holy See by the will of the King of Italy Umberto I in 1983. During the 1898 ostension, a lawyer in Brasilia was allowed to photograph the shroud. Wonder… By developing the photos, he lives in relief of the frontal and dorsal image of a man. The image of shroud acts as a natural negative, except for injury.
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