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June 5, 1997 -- No. 398 |
Flower images on Shroud of Turin subject of Israeli professor's talk
CHAPEL HILL -- Hundreds of flower images on the Shroud of Turin will be the subject of a 1:30 p.m. talk Wednesday (June 11) in the Totten Center at the N.C. Botanical Garden of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Israeli botanist Dr. Avinoam Danin, a professor at Hebrew University and author of five books on plant life in Israel, will elaborate on his judgment that the images represent flowers native to Jerusalem. The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot, 3-inch cloth that some believe to have been the burial shroud of Jesus.
The flower images on the shroud were documented in research by Duke University psychiatry professor Dr. Alan Whanger and Mary Whanger, his wife. Danin confirmed their findings in 1995, saying, “Those are the flowers of Jerusalem. I can't say for certain that it was Jesus' shroud, but there is no doubt that it comes from the land of Israel.”
The talk will be free and open to all at the Botanical Garden, located off Old Mason Farm Road. For more information, call Sandra Brooks-Mathers at 962-0522.
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N.C. Botanical Garden contact: Sandra Brooks-Mathers, 962-0522.
News Services contact: Laura J. Toler