The Turin Shroud is believed, by many, to be the very cloth within which the bloodied body of Christ was wrapped up after his crucifixion. However, over recent decades, the authenticity of this piece of hallowed fabric has been widely questioned.
Both sides point to scientific testing and research to prove their case, with many believing that the dating of the artifact is inaccurate and that it is actually from the medieval period. Earlier objections included a local Bishop who, in 1390, asserted that the piece was a forgery completed by a local artist – he also insisted that a confession was made to this effect.
Despite the more recent objections that the piece dates later than originally thought, in the ’80s, the Shroud of Turin Research Project encouraged belief in the cloth’s historical validity.
“The Shroud image is that of a real human form of a scourged, crucified man… not the product of an artist,” they wrote, according to the Catholic Herald. “No chemical or physical methods known… can account for the totality of the image.”
Since then, questions have continued to swirl regarding both the nature of the piece and the accuracy of its dating.
“The chief complaint is that the three small Shroud test samples were cut from the same outer edge on a piece of the cloth long thought to have been added later in the Middle Ages,”…
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