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"No amount of experimental work can recreate
for us the agony all of this must have caused, an agony which in
the case of Jewish victims went on until a little before sundown,
when the legs were broken to hasten death if death had not already
intervened. Doctors have differed on the actual medical reasons for
the breaking of legs bringing on death, some suggesting that because
the victim would be unable to raise himself he would no longer be able
to breathe; others that again because he would be unable to raise himself,
his blood would sink to the lower part of his body, and death would
ensue from orthostatic collapse.
"At all events it appears that for the man of the Shroud
death intervened, mercifully, at some earlier stage. There is no sign of
breakage of the legs. Instead there is a clear wound in the side,
which may be interpreted as the spear thrust specifically recorded in
the Gospel of St. John as being administered to the body of Jesus
Christ to check that he was actually dead. (Jn. 19:34)."
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| Reference for all preceding information |
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"The Shroud of Turin," Ian Wilson, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1978 |
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