We wait in the valley of dry bones...

THE CATHEDRAL OF OTRANTO

Seat of the Archdiocese of Otranto, Italy.

Founded in 1068 A. D.

August 14, 1480, invading Ottoman Turks massacred 800

men of Otranto, beheading them on the nearby Hill of Minerva.

They were killed because they refused to convert to Islam.

The bones of these resolute martyrs are visible

in reliquaries that surround a chapel

near the main altar of the cathedral.

Shrouded in Mystery

The Shroud of Turin, regarded by many to be

the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

The material and weave authenticate to the time period.

The image appears to have been formed from within

the cloth by the emission of some type of energy

rendering a three dimensional impression through

the material.

The blood on the cloth is AB, and matches

the type of several Eucharistic miracles,

such as that of Lanciano.