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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 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 ...
The Shroud of Turin, ... In 1994, J. A. Christen applied a robust statistical test to the radiocarbon data and concluded that the given age for the shroud is, from a ...
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.
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.
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]
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]
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 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.