Stock Photo - 1971 - More recent historians, however, have accepted that He could have been five feet ten inches (the height of the imprlatt on the shroud. Now the Professor says The method of measuring did not allow for the body being in a slightly hunched poeitien'. The Holy Shroud hae been kept in the Basilic* of St John in Turin for nearly 400 years. In 1929 Pr, FERRI was allowed to work with photographed of it, ohich showed imprints believed to hare been made by a chemical reaction of the myrrh and aloe. on the cloth against the body. The shroud. about 14ft 5in, lecg, was wrapped lenghwise over the body, Prof: FEHRI°0 experiment. show Christ could not have beet fully stretched out in burial. Be else says 4'Most of the biblical record of the Crucifixion is eerroot, The *riot of one are wee pierced by a nail and so was the other hand, There were two mails thro,gh the feet, But Jesus oould net have been left hanging by the nails. There must have been some other support-a wooden shelf beneath His feet or a peg bet wenn his legs, (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)