Photographer reveals hidden image on Shroud of Turin in 1898
What the video says
As the picture slowly appeared on the glass, Pia found himself looking at the image of a man with a face showing real shading and depth, closed eyes, and a beard. The marks of wounds on the body were as clear as a photograph of a real person. Pia was so shocked that the glass plate almost slipped from his hands.
He realized the faint stains on the cloth were not random stains at all. A real, detailed picture of a man had been hidden inside them. For all those years nobody could see it until a camera finally brought it out. Somehow a picture had been hidden in the cloth hundreds of years before cameras were invented.
Key moments
- The picture slowly appears on the glass plate.
- Pia sees the image of a man with a face showing real shading and depth, closed eyes, and a beard.
- The marks of wounds on the body are as clear as a photograph of a real person.
- Pia is so shocked the glass plate almost slips from his hands.
- He realizes the faint stains on the cloth are not random stains.
- A real, detailed picture of a man was hidden inside the stains.
- Nobody could see the image for years until a camera brought it out.
- A picture had been hidden in the cloth hundreds of years before cameras were invented.
A new episode of Mysteries of Christendom examines the 1898 moment when photographer Secondo Pia developed a glass plate of the Shroud of Turin. As the picture appeared in his darkroom, Pia saw the image of a man with a face showing real shading and depth, closed eyes, and a beard. The marks of wounds on the body were as clear as a photograph of a living person.
Pia was so shocked that the glass plate almost slipped from his hands. He realized the faint stains on the cloth were not random marks at all. A real, detailed picture of a man had been hidden inside them.
For centuries nobody could see it until a camera finally brought it out. Somehow a picture had been hidden in the cloth hundreds of years before cameras were invented. The episode presents this discovery as the starting point for more than a century of scientific investigations, controversy, and continuing questions about whether the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
Main points
- Photographer Secondo Pia captures the Shroud of Turin in 1898
- Glass plate reveals detailed image of a man with wounds
- Image shows shading, depth, closed eyes, and beard
- Hidden picture was invisible until photography revealed it
- Discovery sparked over a century of scientific investigation