John Paul II on imprint left by tortured body
In a speech at the cathedral in Turin Cathedral on Sunday May 24, 1998, Pope John Paul II said:
The Shroud is an image of God's love as well as of human sin ... The imprint left by the tortured body of the Crucified One, which attests to the tremendous human capacity for causing pain and death to one's fellow man, stands as an icon of the suffering of the innocent in every age.
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