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Hey there, sproutsouts. Today is Wednesday, February 26th, 20205. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are doing a deep dive into relics. Relics, of course, are a physical reminder of the life of a saint or the life of Jesus

Christ. Relics are often pieces of a saint's body, or as we are talking about this week,

objects that Jesus interacted with and used for our salvation during his earthly life.

Yesterday we talked about the true cross.

And today we're going to talk about what is perhaps the most controversial relic in the entire world,

and that is the Shroud of Turin.

Before we do that, however, please join me in our February prayer, the Jesus prayer.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. Amen. So the shroud of Turin.

Now the shroud of Turin is a big piece of fabric. It is roughly 14 feet wide and three feet tall. So it's a very long piece of fabric. At one point, it was white,

but it's aged now. And there's little burn marks because for hundreds of years, it was folded up.

Unfortunately, the church that it was kept in

in France burned down and bits of the fabric was burned. So it has been replaced, repaired by

poor clear nuns. But what's so special about this big piece of fabric?

Well, many believe that this big piece of fabric is the burial cloth that Jesus was

wrapped in after he was crucified.

And in fact, although when you look at a big picture of the whole cloth laid out,

it doesn't look like much because if you can imagine a piece of fabric wrapped around a body,

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