Abstract

VILLALAIN, J.D.. Study of the cadaveric rigidity presenting in the Shroud of Turin. Cuad. med. forense [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.1-2, pp.109-123. ISSN 1988-611X.

In the forensic study of the sindonic image it is necessary to pay attention to the intense rigidity that is observed in the corporal image of the Man of the Shroud. In this paper, this cadaveric phenomenon is analyzed and the possible conditioning factors which could have modified its normal evolution. Furthermore, taking into account the circumstance that this rigidity was broken and then recovered in shoulders and arms, we try to determine chronologically in which moment of the death this surprising image could be produced.

Keywords : Cadaveric rigidity; Shroud of Turin; Time after death.

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