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During the fire of 1532, it became necessary to use water on the shrine,
to be able to handle it and bring it to a safe place. The water penetrated inside the
shrine and a large part of the sheet got wet. In fact, the seven rhomboidal areas that we
can still see on the Shroud are the few parts that remained dry. The imprints seem, again,
repeated along the sheet because of the folding pattern. Some substances, present on the
sheet, were dragged by the water when the fabric got wet, and that caused the water stains
to have serrated edges. The position of the halos leads to think that the Shroud had to
withstand the water impact in more than one occasion. |