The sudarium of oviedo

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I am not sure if this is the proper section to post this question, but here goes. I have recently begun to study The Sudarium of Oviedo. I know this cloth was placed of over Jesus’ head after dying on the cross, when taken down from the cross and when He was transported to the tomb.

After reading John 20:1-9, particularly when he said he saw the linen wrappings lying there and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.

These are my questions:
  1. Was Jesus buried with the cloth still on his head or was it removed before being wrapped in the linen?
  2. What significance does the cloth play in John’s gospel?
I can understand seeing the linen wrapping (Shroud of Turin) laying there by itself as to proof of Jesus’ resurrection but why mention the cloth "rolled up in a place by itself?

Any help shedding some light on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
 
From EWTN:
Needless to say, the passage in John 20 has been studied for many centuries by scholars and exegetes. The stress upon the soudarion (or burial clothes) makes obvious in the Gospel that Jesus has truly risen.

The presence of the burial clothes point in part to the earlier resurrection of Lazarus by Jesus, an act that was punctuated by the emergence of Lazarus still clothed as he had been buried. Here, in John 20, Jesus has risen and has chosen to fold the cloth for he is in utter control of death and life. There is thus a unity between the death and resurrection implied in the very disposition of the soudarion.

Now the fact that the soudarion is carefully folded had its own specific purpose. The position or form of the clothes was seen by the early Church especially to support the clear and unmistakable affirmation that the body had not been removed, for had the body been stolen, grave robbers would not have taken the time to unwrap the linens and certainly not have placed the soudarion rolled up neatly in its place. This was the position of St. John Chrysostom, for example (In Jo.Hom. LXXXV 4; PG 59; 465).
 
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