The Sudarium of Oviedo

The sudarium of Oviedo is a face linen cloth fabric that has the alleged history of being the complementary fabric to the shroud. It supposedly covered Jesus face for a short period of time between the krucifixion time, the dismantling of Jesus from the cross, the relatively short transport of the body (approx 200 - 300 feet to the tomb under Golgatha. The sudarium bares trace of Jesus blood (Bloodtype AB, wich in total (AB+(5 %), AB-(0,5 %)) amounts to ca: 5,5 % of the world population). The analysis could also determine the AB blood to be from a male wich, given an approximate 50 % reduction for male vs female AB blood, should take down the number to match just under 3 % of the world population. This blood analysis (type AB) is coherent with the samples  from the shroud and additionally its stains and patterns are in exact coherence with the shroud geometrics and the biblical story of the wounds and inflictions of Jesus. It strongly points to the fact that the Sudarium covered the same face at the same time as the shroud manifest. Scientific investigations of the Sudarium has shown pollen samples from all places of its journey dating back to the time of Jesus with pollen from Jerusalem, Alexandria Egypt, Toledo and Oviedo Spain were it arrived ca: 718 Ad.

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The face cloth covering the face of Jesus from the crucifixion to the tomb. 

The Sudarium of Oviedo, or Shroud of Oviedo, is a bloodstained piece of cloth measuring c. 84 cm × 53 cm (33 by 21 inches) kept in the Cámara Santa of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain.[1] The Sudarium (Latin for sweat cloth) is linked to a legend of a cloth wrapped around the head of Jesus Christ after he died as described in John 20:6–7.

The cloth has been dated to around 700 AD by radiocarbon dating, inconsistent with a history purportedly extending back to c. 570 due to a possible reference to the Sudarium by the anonymous pilgrim of Piacenza.[2] The laboratory noted that later oil contamination could have affected the dating.[3]

The small chapel housing it was built specifically for the cloth by King Alfonso II of Asturias in AD 840; the Arca Santa is an elaborate reliquary chest with a Romanesque metal frontal for the storage of the Sudarium and other relics. The Sudarium is displayed to the public three times a year: Good Friday, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on 14 September, and its octave on 21 September.

History.

The Sudarium shows signs of advanced deterioration, with dark flecks that are symmetrically arranged but form no image, unlike the markings on the Shroud of Turin. The sudarium is linked to a face cloth in the empty tomb mentioned by John 20:6–7. Outside of the Bible, the anonymous pilgrim of Piacenza recorded in 570 AD that he visited a cave on the Jordan rumored to have the face cloth mentioned in John.

Pelagius of Oviedo, a bishop of medieval Spain, gives an account of the Sudarium's history from the Holy Land to Spain preserved in the Liber testamentorum and interpolated into the Chronica ad Sebastianum in the Liber chronicorum.

This account claims the Sudarium was taken from Israel in 614 AD, after the invasion of the Byzantine provinces by the Sassanid Persian King Khosrau II. To avoid destruction in the invasion, it was taken away first to Alexandria by the presbyter Philip, who then carried it through northern Africa when Khosrau II conquered Alexandria in 616 AD, and arrived in Spain shortly thereafter. The Sudarium entered Spain at Cartagena, along with people who were fleeing from the Persians. Fulgentius, bishop of Ecija, welcomed the refugees and the relics, and gave the chest containing the Sudarium to Leandro, bishop of Seville. He took it to Seville, where it spent some years.

In 657 it was moved to Toledo, then in 718 on to northern Spain to escape the advancing Moors. The Sudarium was hidden in the mountains of Asturias in a cave known as Montesacro near Oviedo, until King Alfonso II, having battled back the Moors, built a chapel in Oviedo to house it in 840 AD.

On 14 March 1075, King Alfonso VI, his sister and Rodrigo Diaz Vivar (El Cid) opened the chest after days of fasting. The event was recorded on a document preserved in the Capitular Archives at the Cathedral of San Salvador in Oviedo. The king had the oak chest covered in silver with an inscription that reads, "The Sacred Sudarium of Our Lord Jesus Christ".

The Science.

 It is believed  that the Sudarium cloth is wrapped around the face of Jesus while he is still on the cross and just after his death at approximately 3 PM - this is due to the strict burial traditions of judaism. The history as referred to above, traces the Sudarium back to at least the 6th century, leaving the period from 33 AD to the 5th century as a blank spot in history. There are several cloths, besides the burial shroud, found in the tomb of Jesus. There are temporary head cloths and wound cloths found that only were wrapped on after his death on the cross and shortly therafter when he was taken down for transport to the burial tomb and his final shroud wrapping. The specifik face cloth, the Sudarium, was layed over his face during this short time window. 

Blood Trail Compliance.

- There are several exactly correlated blood trail patterns between the Sudarium and the Shroud itself. These appears in 3 major areas of the face. A, the face area itself, B, the mouth and beard area, C, the forehead area. The blood patterns correlates in exact precision match with the Shroud. Area, Size, bloodstructure, patterns and blood type, as referred to in text previously, but is worth repeating.

Blood type.

- The sudarium bares trace of blood (Bloodtype AB, wich in total (AB+(5 %), AB-(0,5 %)) amounts to ca: 5,5 % of the world population). The analysis could also determine the AB blood to be from a male wich, given an approximate 50 % reduction for male vs female AB blood, should take down the number to match just under 3 % of the world population. This blood analysis (type AB) is coherent with the samples from the shroud and additionally its stains and patterns are in exact coherence with the shroud geometrics. 

The blood samples taken from the mouth and beard area also shows high levels of pulmonary edema, wich is generated in the lungs during extrem stress, pain or torture. 6 parts pulmonary edema and 1 part blood is what has come out of the lungs. 

The Pollen evidence. 

There is pollen in the fabric of both the Sudarium and the Shroud. 

1. The pollen from the Sudarium matches specifically from the area of the Asturias Oviedo in nortern Spain. 

2. It also matches specific pollen from the area of Toledo in central Spain. 

3. There is specific pollen that matches the area of northern Africa and the Area around Alexandria. 

4. There is also specific pollen o n the Sudarium that matches from the Area of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Pollen also include a large part of a specific pollen that only bloom in Jerusalem on a narrow time window of passower. A large amount of pollen from the Gundelia tourneforti plant has been found on the Shroud in the area of the head and shoulders. So the pollen record supports that the Romans used this plant to make the cap of thorns. The Gundelia Tournifortii plant grows in Palestine and flowers between February and May. It's known for its large thorns: 1.5 to 2 inches long. These thorns grow in pairs; one straight and the other curved. It is also found in excess on and around the area of the face, head and shoulders of the the shroud of Turin.

 What kind of thorns could puncture the head like this? Evidence points to a plant called Gundelia tourneforti, or Ziziphus spina-christi.

5. The specific Jerusalem pollen is also were the Sudarium and the Shroud match with their samples. Dr. Max Frei, a Swiss investigator who took sticky tape samples from the Shroud in 1973 and 1978 for microscopic study, especially for identification of the pollen grains. In 1988 the Whangers helped acquire Dr. Frei's entire extensive collection which is now in their custody in Durham/Raleigh. Photographs of and from this unique collection will be shown. D. The value of careful detailed examination of high-quality photographs and other materials by showing images on the Shroud of hundreds of flowers (many identified by the late Israeli Professor Avinoam Danin, world authority on the botany of the Near and Middle East) and of all of the implements and materials used in the Crucifixion, including two Crowns of Thorns. See text under number 4.

6. These Jerusalem pollen analysis actually affirms the time around the 1st century wich contradicts and outdates the carbon dating done wich states that it would be from the 6- 7th century.    

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2. Mathematical correlation between the shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo. SEEC - 2025. 

https://youtu.be/qnL-dUAC0M4?si=Exo1lgRcBgBTja64

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