![]() ![]() Others claim that the fabric had been chemically preserved and those substances skewed the results. The testing dated the shroud to the Middle Ages, not the Biblical era, but critics claim the test was flawed because it was done on fabric used to repair the cloth after the fire. Was it perhaps some unknown chemical process? A release of radioactive energy?Īdding to the mystery of the Shroud of Turin were the results of radiocarbon dating on the fabric in 1988. If it's a hoax, how was the image formed? If it was created like a photo negative, it would have had to be coated with a photosensitive substance and treated with a bright flash of light to fuse the image onto the cloth, which would have made it the first photograph by a number of centuries. After all, miracles aren't bound by the laws of physics. It seems easy, on its face (no pun intended), to dismiss the Shroud of Turin as some marks on a rag that anyone could have made with the ancient version of a Sharpie, but it's actually easier to explain as an authentic relic. Pope Pius XII referred to the cloth as "a holy thing perhaps like nothing else," Pope John Paul II called it a "distinguished relic," and Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have both issued statements that seem to indicate their support. Shortly thereafter, it was moved to the Cathedral of Turin in northern Italy, from which it gets its name.īy the 20th century, it was an accepted truth within the Catholic Church that the shroud was authentic. Although there was no written record of any such shroud for hundreds of years after Jesus's death and the first confirmed documentation of its existence is a 1390 letter from Biship Pierre d'Arcis to Pope Clement VII declaring the shroud a fake, there was no dissuading certain true believers. In 1506, Pope Julius II announced that the Shroud of Turin was an authentic religious relic that should be venerated. In 1532, after the shroud was almost destroyed when the French chapel where it was stored caught fire, a group of nuns sewed patches over the burn marks. To the Catholic Church, it confirmed something they'd long believed: that the image of Jesus was miraculously burned into the fabric of his burial shroud. In 1898, an Italian photographer named Secondo Pia became the first person allowed to take a photograph of the Shroud of Turin, and when he developed the film in his darkroom, he was astonished to see the faint markings reverse their colors and the clear image of a face materialize on his negatives. It's also a reverse image, like a photographic negative, somehow created long before the invention of photography. Not only has it somehow been imprinted with the face and body of a man, the image of that man's body appears to display injuries consistent with crucifixion. The Shroud of Turin is no ordinary blankie. ![]()
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