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The STURP Research Project - The Shroud of Turin Website

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THE <strong>STURP</strong> TEST PLAN<strong>The</strong> <strong>STURP</strong> team spent a year and a halfdesigning a comprehensive battery <strong>of</strong>non-destructive tests that could beperformed in a brief but efficient period<strong>of</strong> time. <strong>The</strong>y developed the protocolsfor each experiment, scheduled thetests within the confines <strong>of</strong> a 96 hourtest period and compiled everythinginto a detailed, 65 page spiral boundnotebook that would not only guide usduring our examination, but would firstbe submitted to <strong>Turin</strong> for final approval.Permission to examine the <strong>Shroud</strong> wasgranted to <strong>STURP</strong> by King Umberto II,Duke <strong>of</strong> Savoy, the owner <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Shroud</strong>in 1978. To assist us in our liaison withthe Church and the <strong>Turin</strong> Custodians,we also worked closely with the Holy<strong>Shroud</strong> Guild in Esopus, New York.9

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