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A Catholic reader from Boca Raton asks the South Florida Sun Sentinel's Lois Solomon about Jewish burial rites, wondering why the body of her late friend was wrapped in a white shroud and placed ...

The Turin Shroud is a piece of linen cloth about 14.5 feet long and 3.7 feet wide. On it you can see the brownish outline of a naked bearded man, who sports long hair and is lying with his hands ...

Or the Jewish collar that was worn in Europe until the 19th century and disappeared, but it still exists in the shroud." The collection of burial shrouds can teach us about the culture, tradition ...

Jewish burial customs are based on the Hebrew Bible. ... They are then interred without any formaldehyde treatment, in an untreated pine box, wrapped in a white shroud.

Jewish burial amid tragedy: ... and dressing it in white shrouds. This is followed by shomer (Guard), which means that from the time of death until the burial, the body is not left unattended.

First of all, all the blood marks that we see on the shroud are absolutely consistent with what John states about Jesus’ torture, crucifixion, death and Jewish burial.

Are Jewish burials the same as a natural burial? They are very similar. Jewish custom calls for a body to be buried with no embalming chemicals, wrapped in a shroud and placed in a plain wooden ...

The Funeral Museum has put together an extremely handsome display of their replica, including a statue of the man built by Italian artist Luigi Enzo Mattei using the shroud as a blueprint.

Mourners lay flowers on a body wrapped in a shroud before it is lowered into a grave at Heartwood Preserve Conservation Cemetery near Tampa, Florida. A. Ragan Courtesy of Heartwood Preserve A ...