it is a nice story...but it is untrue....it is pure web-lore....and it is very dangerous becauise it sounds so true but people who claim to be ordained and educated dont check references....this waters down the Church of Christ it does not amplify it......
the truth of the matter is that during a first century jewish burial the body was treated with oils....and herbs...and wrapped tightly in linen strips....not unlike a mummy but not quite......anyway the face was left uncovered...and a small square cloth (or napkin) was placed over the face...the body would remain perfumed like this for a year or two...and then the bones would be placed in an ossuary and the grave used again......

this is the lifes end of the start which was swaddling clothes......this was not the pretty baby crib seen from Christmas cards....when an infant was born (within an hour) it was cleaned and the the limbs and the torso were wrapped tightly with thin strips of cloth...(to set the ways staright for the youth) also it was then that the youth prayed over and the salt covenant was taken by the parents....
see see Ezekiel 16:4...

the point is that a similar procedure was done at death to re-affirm the life of the person....

the real significance of the napkin is that the body of Christ had to be transformed to get out of the tightly wrapped linens surrounding his limbs...(kind of like he morphed through them....or...not to be gross ...but got sucked through the face.) because the linens would have been too tight for anyone to have taken his body and re-wrapped the linens to form around his (now absent body) the napkin folded is significant because...of the neatness and ordination of the affair...in other words he was not stolen (the clothes are still there) and the folded napkin means that "he did it" he got up...and took the time to prove that others had not done this....

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