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May 4th is celebrated liturgical feast of the Shroud, the sheet that for over a century has attracted the interest of scientists from all over the world, as well as the faithful, and which continues to reveal new secrets.
The festival will also be remembered in Trento and Rovereto with speeches by Giulio Fanti and Mario Trematore.
Scientists and miracles, you might ask? It has never been a problem, in truth, for the pioneers of science, from Galileo to Newton, from Descartes to Pascal, to hypothesize that natural laws have their origin in a Supreme Legislator, “Lord of the Universe” (Isaac Newton), and that He, having created the laws of the universe, is also its master.
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For Leibnitz, father of infinitesimal calculus, eclectic mathematician and physicist of the first order, the “nature of things” is nothing other than the order chosen by God; order and nature “which God can dispense with in view of a stronger reason than that which pushed him to use those rules”, that is, for example, not “to support the needs of nature, but those of grace”.
Even today, believing and non-believing scientists, as we said, are passionate about this cloth and it they study in a thousand ways: analyzing traces of blood, pollen, the extraordinary conformation of the image and much more.
Among these, Giulio Fanti, professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements at the University of Padua and who has been publishing articles on the topic in prestigious scientific journals for years: will be in Rovereto on May 3rd (Church of the Holy Virgin of Loreto, 8.30 pm) and in the Archpriest Church of Sant’Udalrico, same time, in Lavis, on 4 May.
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In another meeting, in Rovereto (10 May, 8.30 pm, Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio), invited by the cultural association Ukmar (http://www.ukmar.it/chi_siamo.html) and the Academy of Rosminian Studies, he will tell his story and his conversion too Trembling Mario, the fireman who, on the night between 11 and 12 April 1997, in the Guarini chapel, located between the Turin Cathedral and the Royal Palace, he heroically saved the Holy Shroud which was once again threatened by fire.
Having failed every possibility of opening the case in which it was placed, Trematore – who was then an atheist – took it upon himself to smash it with a sledgehammer, extract it and take it to safety (see ). Since then his life has changed…
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