The Bloodstain on the Shroud of Turin are from Real Blood
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page is best understood by first reading the page, Forensic Pathology.
From forensic observation we see that the stains are
from real human bleeding from real wounds on a real human body that came
into direct contact with the cloth. When the stains formed, the man was
lying on his back with his feet near one end of the fourteen foot long,
banner shaped piece of cloth.
Alan Adler, a professor of
chemistry at Western Connecticut State University and an
expert on porphyrins, the types of colored compounds seen in blood
(chlorophyll and many other natural products) concluded that the
blood is real.
Alder and John Heller, Professor
of Life Sciences at the New EnglandInstitute, published
their conclusions that the bloodstains were genuinein the
peer-reviewed scientific journal Applied Optics [1980]. They
reported spectral analysis confirmed that the heme was converted
into its parent porphyrin.
Baima Bollone, working independently also found
the heme porphyrin and globulin in flakes of blood from Shroud
samples.
X-ray-fluorescence spectra showed excess iron in
blood areas, as expected for blood.
Microchemical tests for proteins were positive
in the bloodstains but not in any other parts of the Shroud.
Some have argued that the blood could not be real
because old blood always turns black with age. The bloodstains on
the Shroud are red. But this argument is scientifically invalid.
