![]() ![]() The body image is muscular and 1.70 to 1.88 meters, or about 5'7" to 6'2", tall, with wound points as though they could have been caused by the process of crucifixion, but there is no generally accepted theory to explain how the image was actually impressed onto the cloth in the first place. It shows faint but distinctive sepia images of the front and back of a naked man with his hands folded across his groin. The cloth (specifically linen) is woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils. ![]() The Shroud is rectangular, measuring some 4.4 by 1.1 meters (14'5" × 3'7"). Although in principle it is meant to be scientific, it often promotes pseudoscientific hypotheses and already debunked claims instead (imagine that!). Sindonology is the study (if you can call it that) of the Shroud of Turin. This papal declaration would appear to be " authoritative but non- infallible". Benedict XVI is much more confident in claiming that it is authentic. Pope Francis referred to the shroud as an "icon of a man scourged and crucified". Why own something that might be bullshit? Oh, that's right, the tourism dollar$. ![]() The Catholic Church, which currently owns it, neither endorses nor rejects it. There would be no reason to presume it was Jesus in particular. Even if the shroud was authentically proven to come from 1 st century Judea, this would only show that someone was crucified, and crucifixion as a common punishment at the time has never been disputed ( at least by sane people who know what they're talking about). Radiometric dating established that the shroud dates from 1260–1390, which coincides with the date of the memorandum. The first certain mention of it comes from the 14 th century when Bishop Pierre d'Arcis wrote a memorandum to antipope Clement VII in which he stated that the shroud was a fraud and that the forger had confessed. The Shroud of Turin also known as the Holy Shroud is a length of linen cloth claimed by some members of the Christian community to have been Jesus' death shroud. “ ”The two attributes central to the shroud’s alleged religious significance - that it wrapped the body of Jesus, and is of supernatural origin - are precisely those neither science nor history can ever prove. ![]()
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