Michael McCollum - The Shroud

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The Shroud

Michael McCollum

The Shroud of Turin is thought by many to be the burial

cloth of Jesus Christ. As such, it could represent the greatest

danger Christianity has yet faced . . .

(Caution: People with strong religious beliefs may find the subject matter disturbing.)

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The Shroud first appeared as the cover story in the March 2, 1981,

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THE SHROUD

Michael McCollum

John Frakes was jolted awake by the screech of tires on

wet asphalt as the twenty year old airplane touched down at

Aeroporto di Torino. He groaned and straightened up in his

seat. The catnap on the forty minute flight from Rome had

been his first rest in thirty hours. Ever since the final lab

results had been verified, his sleep had been marred by the

same recurring nightmare. He would barely doze off when the

stern face of his father scowled forth from his deep

subconscious, tugging him forcefully back to reality.

The Reverend Lester Frakes had been a fire breathing

Episcopalian minister while he lived. Even five years after the

old man’s death, Frakes still occasionally woke in the middle

of the night covered with nervous sweat, his hands shaking in a

fit of filial guilt. His father had never really forgiven him for

changing his major from Religious Studies to Chemistry during

his Junior year of college.

“I’ve raised me a damned atheist, have I?” the Reverend

Frakes had screamed at him that fateful Christmas Eve when he

had broken the news.

“No, sir, an agnostic.”

“I will pray for you, lad,” Lester Frakes had said,

casting his eyes heavenward. “Perhaps the Lord will someday

tear this veil of foolishness from your eyes so that you may see

the path of righteousness once more.”

Even then Frakes had had to smile inwardly as his

father slipped easily into the old fire-and-brimstone sermon

mode. As they had done so many times before, the words

washed over him as though from a scalding sea, their sting

intended to bend his will to that of the old man.

Only that time he had refused to bend, and in the end, it

had killed the Reverend Frakes as surely as a knife.

“What would say now, Father, if you knew what I

know?”

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