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Turin, 15 October 2000 During the week between Monday 9 and Sunday 15 October, 157.716 pilgrims walked before the Shroud, with an average of 22.530 people per day. 891.823 pilgrims have come to see the Exposition since its opening, and, in addition, we should also consider about 210.000 people more, who entered the Duomo through its main entrance to see the Shroud from afar. 126.841 people are expected to visit the Exposition of the Shroud next week, although we should remember that many reservations are usually made last minute. 1.018.664 reservations were made for the whole period of the Exposition until 15 October at 4 pm, while 33.507 reservations were made in the week from 9 and 15 October.
Tv stations from all over the world to see the Shroud The Shroud will be on Japanese TV screens. In the last days of the exposition a troupe from a Tokyo TV company, «Tv Man Union», will shoot a documentary on the Shroud: they will take shots of the linen, of the pilgrims and of the museum of the Shroud in via San Domenico 28. Many other countries are interested in the linen. Even if we do not consider the newspapers which have come to Turin on the inauguration of the Exposition or on other important occasions, there have been 8 foreign TV channels that have made programs on the Shroud. In September «Ntv» (the most important Russian TV channel), «Globevista» from Australia, «Mtv» from Hungary, «Tv Cançao Nova» from Brazil; we mention also Greek and German TV companies besides «Histoire d’Images», a French company that produces high definition cultural documentaries. Before 22 October international channel «Arte» will be in Torino. Many times the groups of TV companies who have come to Torino for the Exposition were willing to visit the town and the region: “Torino is lovely - a Russian Ntv journalist, Serghei Kostin, said - the Shroud is well known, all over the world, and do not need publicity, but the city and the area that surrounds it, deserves to be more known.
Andrea Bocelli among the pilgrims Andrea Bocelli visited the exposition on Tuesday 10 October. The tenor entered the path from the Royal Gardens, and then he was taken to the three-dimensional model made by the Diocesan Commission for the Exposition of the Shroud on request by Apri (Piedmontese association of the rethinopaths and low sighted people). An Apri volunteer guided the singer’s right hand stopping on the spots corresponding to the signs of the linen and on the piece of fabric that gives the same consistence of the Shroud. “It is an incredible object. - Bocelli said - Every single particular seems so clear and easy to distinguish”. Andrea Bocelli wanted to stop in silence for a few minutes in front of the Shroud, in Duomo: “Even the idea of a person who was crucified is disturbing - he said - Also from a religious point of view it is a strong experience, but it is not easy to describe it with words”. From the opening of the Exposition 350 blind people have come: volunteers have showed them the three-dimensional model that represents the frontal part of the Shroud. The model was made in aluminium by Casa di Carità Arti e Mestieri. At the secretariat you can find also some Braille publications.
Comitato per l’Ostensione solenne della Sindone e per l'anno
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