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The Cloth of Oviedo is said by many to be the face cloth of Christ. It is 83cm x 53cm and has resided within the walls of the Cathedral of Oviedo, Spain since the eighth century. It is said to have dwelled in Jerusalem until 614 where it was then moved to North Africa and eventually Spain to protect it from harm by the attacking Muslims. Here, in Spain, it stayed. The most striking attributes of this cloth is that it has preserved on it several bloodstains. These are of human male blood, type AB (The same as on the Shroud of Turin). Furthermore, in a Polarized Image Overlay of the Cloth of Oviedo and the Shroud of Turin, Alan Whanger found at least seventy points of congruence between the two cloths’ bloodstains. While the cloth does not bear a face image, the blood congruencies would bear a striking coincidence if the two cloths were not connected the same way. They are both of the same textile weave, and they both share at least four of the same pollen types that were found on them. If this were the face cloth of Christ then it would have been put over His head as Joseph of Arimathea and his companions carried Jesus to the tomb and prepared it. This would have been the cloth that was “rolled up in a separate place by itself” as said in the Gospels.