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Friday, 11th April. At 11.30 p.m. a fire broke out in the interior of the chapel of
Guarini. The flames have rapidly reached the nearby Royal Palace.
The salvage of the Sindon (the Shroud) has been very dangerous, but the sudarium has been
put in safety before the eventual collapse of the dome damaged it.
The causes of the fire are still doubtful.
The Cardinal Saldarini, keeper of the Holy Sudarium, assures that the ostension in 1998
won't be compromised.
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| His name is Mario Trematore. He is the man who saved the Sindon from the flames and
from the collapses. When the situation was given up for lost, he dashed amidst the flames
and while around him all was collapsing, bursting and burning, with a big iron hammer he
began to batter the bullet-proof glass reliquary which protects the relic. He says:
"I found the courage in that symbol, the symbol of the Sindon. Only a miracle can
explain how I succeeded in breaking the reliquary. When finally all the glass layers gave
up and while the beams were falling down, I succeeded in grasping the reliquary with the
sudarium in it with both hands and running out with it. Some priests came towards me and
everybody burst into tears." |
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Further details
The Cathedral
and the Chapel
The Archbishop's press note
Exposition route - Fire in the
Cathedral - Home page |
