What a wonderful reinforcement of the Easter truth, coming as a timely riposte, as though by the divine hand, to the deluded men who tried to tarnish the glory of the cross through the Moskva caper [h/t to Lew Rockwell].

Working with a team of other researchers, Liberato De Caro of Italy’s Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council in Bari used a “Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering” method to examine the natural aging of cellulose that constitutes a sample of the famous linen cloth.

They concluded that their peer reviewed research shows the Holy Shroud is compatible with the hypothesis that it is much older than seven centuries old — the conclusion reached in 1988 using carbon dating techniques — and is around 2,000 years old.