' as if the man were wearing sunglasses. But, in 1898 a lawyer from the town of Turin, Secondo Pia, was asked to take the first photographs of the Shroud. He was also a keen amateur photographer and a local councilor. In total, Pia took ten photographs, and they were undoubtedly the most significant of his career. This is because, seen in the picture's negatives for the first time the image suddenly came into focus. Rather than a vague outline of a bearded man, there was a massively detailed photograph of a terribly wound real body. It was a horrific, and brutal example of man&ap
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