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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 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 13th ...
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.
However, in a 1990 paper Gove conceded that the "arguments often raised, … that radiocarbon measurements on the shroud should be performed blind seem to the author to be lacking in merit; … lack of blindness in the measurements is a rather insubstantial reason for disbelieving the result." [6]
[5] [6] According to Christian tradition, Sindon cloth was used to shroud the body of Jesus. [7]: 509 The Shroud of Turin, which is purported to be Jesus's burial shroud, is a rectangular piece of sindon fabric that measures approximately 4.36 metres (14.3 ft) in length and 1.1 metres (3 ft 7 in) in width. It displays a faint, sepia-toned image ...
It is located adjacent the Turin Cathedral and connected to the Royal Palace of Turin. The chapel was designed by architect-priest and mathematician Guarino Guarini and built at the end of the 17th century (1668–1694), during the reign of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy , and is considered one of the masterpieces of Baroque architecture .
The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth claimed by some to be the cloth placed on the body of Jesus Christ at the time of his burial. In 1988, scientists at three separate laboratories dated samples from the Shroud to a range of 1260–1390 AD, which coincides with the first appearance of the shroud in the 1350s and is much later than the burial of Jesus in 30 or 33 AD.
The Shroud of Turin Research Project (often abbreviated as STURP) refers to a team of scientists which performed a set of experiments and analyses on the Shroud of Turin during the late 1970s and early 1980s. STURP issued its final report in 1981.
The Shroud of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is an ancient linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion. The image can not be seen on the shroud with the naked eye and for several centuries the shroud had been displayed without it.