ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a detailed description of the Sudarium of Oviedo with its summary of use. It provides some perhaps unnoticed information about other interesting relics of Christ. There are many relics that claim to have come from Jesus Christ—perhaps too many. Among the relics that contain elements that allow scientific research is the Sudarium. It is one of the relics that allows the analysis of its features. If the Sudarium of Oviedo was used for Jesus Christ, it was placed when He was still on the cross and it stayed until his arrival in the tomb. According to Guscin, only John’s gospel uses the Greek term τô σουδάριον in relation to the burial of Jesus. John does not give us a detailed description of all the garments of the deceased, and only mentions the linens that represented a difficulty for the deceased to unravel by himself.
