The question arises as to why brand new samples were not retrieved from the shroud itself.
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The Shroud has been kept in the northern Italian city for more than four centuries.
The only previous - recorded - TV broadcast of the shroud was in 1973.
The shroud has never been officially recognised as authentic by the Vatican, our correspondent says.
Its official position is that the shroud is an important tool for faith regardless of its authenticity.
Until now, researchers have not had access to a digitalized picture of the shroud, he told CNN.
Lockheed Martin built the shroud and support systems for the Hubble, while PerkinElmer and Ball both contributed optics.
Even the Roman Catholic Church does not insist the shroud was used to wrap the body of Jesus.
Some Christians believe the shroud, which appears to bear the imprint of a man's body, to be Jesus Christ's burial cloth.
The Shakespeare authorship page and the Shroud of Turin page are scenes of constant conflict and are packed with unreliable information.
The second is, of course, the Shroud referred to in the Gospels.
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There are people who believe that the Shroud of Turin wrapped His body, others who stand by a radiocarbon analysis pointing to an origin circa 1300.
The app, released in several languages, allows users to scroll over a high-definition image of the shroud and find out more about its history and religious significance.
Many scholars contest the shroud's authenticity, saying it dates to the Middle Ages, when many purported biblical relics -- like splinters from Jesus' cross -- surfaced across Europe.
Now Hickman is on the Shroud of the Avatar project.
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In the film I interview John Jackson who led a major investigation on the shroud in 1978 and has made the study of the Shroud his life's work.
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Archbishop of Turin Cesare Nosiglia will lead a service from the cathedral on Saturday afternoon during which the images of the shroud will be broadcast, according to Vatican Radio.
Shroud 2.0 allows users to zoom in on any part of the high-resolution digital scan of the shroud (first produced in 2008) and download more detailed close-ups for a fee.
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Now, Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical and thermal measurement, asserts that the shroud can be reliably dated to the time of Christ, give or take a few centuries.
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Given the controversial nature of the Shroud, and his claims, I hope Fanti will also consider submitting his results to scientists far removed from Padua, like MIT and Oxford, for example.
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In it, he thanked God for the technological advances that have made it possible for the "Man of the Shroud" to be seen by, and reach out to, so many people.
Mr Jackson, a lecturer in physics and cosmology, introduced me to a wealth of fresh historical and forensic evidence that linked the Shroud of Turin to two earlier Shrouds of Christ.
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Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical engineering at Padua University in Italy and co-author of the book "The Mystery of the Shroud, " said the app will be "very useful" to the scientific community.
"I hope the app will give us the chance of having microscopic data that will be very useful to confront different scientific research on the shroud, which, until now, is still a mystery, " he said.
One of Benedict XVI's last acts as pope, according to Vatican Radio, was to authorize the broadcast of video of the shroud from Turin Cathedral, where the mysterious Christian relic is kept, out of sight, in a bulletproof, climate-controlled glass case.
But the amazing story of the Shroud of Turin has simply refused to fade into obscurity and die, for the simple reason that a conflict of evidence has emerged which is about to re-ignite the debate around this compelling religious artefact.
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In 1978, the Turin shroud, once venerated as the burial cloth of Christ, went on public display for the first time in 45 years.
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