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Did you know there is another smaller, known piece of linen that wrapped around His head from the cross to the tomb.
This cloth is known as the "Sudarium of Oviedo.
" According to John's Gospel, when the tomb was found empty on the third day, not only was the linen that covered His body found, but there was a "napkin, that was upon Jesus' head, separate from the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
" (20:7).
The original Vulgate Bible calls it a "sudarium" which translates to "sweat cloth" in Latin.
This piece of linen measures about 2.
5 feet length * 1.
8 feet height.
Why did Jesus need a sweat cloth to cover his head after being crucified? His face was covered with blood.
According to ancient Hebrew law, if a dead man's face was covered with blood and unrecognizable, the head had to be covered.
Also, the cloth spared families from looking at the gruesome face of their loved one.
During His chastisement by Roman soldiers Jesus face would have been covered with blood due to the thick wreath of sharp thorns they firmly attached around His head.
As the thorns punctured skin, blood would have streamed down His face, ultimately making Him unrecognizable.
Also, when Jesus was brought down from the cross, blood and fluid from his lungs would have drained out from his mouth and nose.
Also, more lung fluid would have exited the nose and mouth when He was being carried to the tomb.
What a person notices when they look at the sudarium are two dark smudges located fairly close to one another.
These large areas were created by fluids that came out of His nose and mouth after He died.
Tests have proven that the fluid that came out was one-sixth blood and five-sixths lung edema.
Jesus could not breathe because His arms were stretched out and up on the cross.
Also, His feet were nailed, so He could not pull himself up in order to breathe.
As a result, His lungs filled with edema which caused asphyxiation.
There are also stains of blood surrounding these two large ones.
All of this blood covered the entire face due to the blood from the crown of thorns still on His head.
There was so much blood on His face that when His body was taken down from the cross and set down inside the tomb, the cloth was mostly blood-soaked.
The blood on Jesus face covered about half of the cloth's surface.
According to historical documents, the sudarium had been in Jerusalem before 600 A.
D.
It was brought to Spain where it was housed in several towns.
During the 9th century A.
D.
, it arrived at the Cathedral in Oviedo and has stayed there ever since.
Is the Sudarium real? To answer that question, it must be compared to the Shroud of Turin itself to find physical similarities between the two.
In another article, I will explain how the Sudarium and the Shroud of Turin are "interwoven" into Christ's Passion.
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