During yesterday’s audience at the Vatican with Cardinal Repole, Leo
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The Holy Shroud as never seen before. Pope Leo XIV was the first, yesterday morning, January 9, to enter Wrapped up, the initiative carried out by the Archdiocese of Turin for the Jubilee that allows a digital reading experience of the synchronic image, accessible via the Internet from anywhere in the world. The presentation to the Pontiff was carried out by the pontifical custodian of the Canvas, Cardinal Roberto Repole, archbishop of Turin, during the audience granted in the Vatican Apostolic Palace.
The initiative is an absolute novelty: it will be possible to connect to the program online both from the site www.avvolti.org and from the official site www.sindone.org, with any device – smartphone, tablet or computer – and with access from all over the world. Thanks to the program it is possible to “tour” the image of the Shroud on the screen itself, enlarging the most significant details (the Face, the crown of thorns…). Each extension is accompanied by explanations and links to the Gospel passages that describe the Passion of Jesus.
The digital reading is intended to bring the general public, around the world, closer to the image of the Shroud and its meanings. Without giving up the scientific rigor of the texts and images, we have sought to create a product accessible to everyone, rather than an initiative aimed at specialists.
Cardinal Repole recalled that the publication of this global digital experience is part of the “Syndonic pastoral” program that the Church of Turin began in 2024 and of which Wrapped up It constituted the central axis for the Jubilee Year 2025. Other initiatives will be programmed and developed in the coming months, in order to create an accompanying journey towards the Jubilee of 2033.
Last spring a tent of Wrapped up in Piazza Castello in Turin. In it, among other proposals, precisely the digital reading that reproduced the image of the Shroud at a 1:1 scale on a specially made table, five meters long, was presented. The tent was visited by more than 30,000 people from 79 countries during the eight days of opening, from April 28 to May 5. Now, the program presented at the Table, duly adapted, is available to everyone on the network. The images and texts of the experience are found on the site www.avvolti.org and on social networks (Facebook and Instagram).
