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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. Cloth bearing the alleged image of Jesus Shroud of Turin The Shroud of Turin: modern photo of the face, positive (left), and digitally processed image (right) Material Linen Size 4.4 m × 1.1 m (14 ft 5 in × 3 ft 7 in) Present location Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin, Italy Period ...
The History of the Shroud of Turin begins in the year 1390 AD, when Bishop Pierre d'Arcis wrote a memorandum where he charged that the Shroud was a forgery. [1] Historical records seem to indicate that a shroud bearing an image of a crucified man existed in the possession of Geoffroy de Charny in the small town of Lirey, France around the years 1353 to 1357.
A photo of the Shroud of Turin face, positive left, negative on the right, having been contrast enhanced. The Shroud of Turin is the best-known and most intensively studied relic of Jesus. [9] In 1988, radiocarbon dating determined that the shroud was from the Middle Ages, between the years 1260 and 1390. [10]
However, a 2022 study that took x-rays of the shroud has recently been widely circulated. Italian scientist Liberato de Caro reportedly proved it matched a related fabric from Masada, Israel, used ...
Shroud proponents cite it as evidence for the shroud's existence before the fourteenth century. Critics point out that inter alia that there is no image on the alleged shroud. The Codex Pray, an Illuminated manuscript written in Budapest, Hungary between 1192 and 1195, includes an illustration of what appears to some to be the Shroud of Turin.
On the occasion of the 100th year of Secondo Pia's (May 28, 1898) first photograph of the Shroud of Turin, on Sunday May 24, 1998, Pope John Paul II visited the Turin Cathedral. In his address on that day, he said: "the Shroud is an image of God's love as well as of human sin" and "it is an icon of the suffering of the innocent in every age." [19]
In 1983, he confidently predicted that radiocarbon dating of the Shroud's linen would show that it had been made shortly before the first historically recorded exhibition of the Shroud in 1356. [23] [24] [25]: 246 The results of the 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud vindicated McCrone's microscopic and chemical analyses. [8] [7] [17]
The shroud’s official custodian, Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of Turin, told Vatican Insider: "As there is no degree of safety on the authenticity of the materials on which these experiments were carried out [on] the shroud cloth, the shroud's custodians cannot recognize any serious value to the results of these alleged experiments."