Shroud of Turin

Face of the Image. The original shroud is left; a "negative" image is on the right.

The Shroud of Turin is a piece of cloth that bears the negative image of a man. It was first mentioned in 1354. Shortly afterwards, a Catholic bishop called it a fake. Since the 17th century, it has been kept in Turin, Italy. The shroud has the negative image of a man. Some claim the image depicts Jesus of Nazareth and the fabric is the burial shroud in which he was wrapped after his Crucifixion. In 2024 researchers at the Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council in Italy used X-ray scattering to study the fabric.This helped them look at cellulose patterns. After comparing the cloth with other pieces of material from that century, they found the cellulose breakdown was similar. The study said: "The data profiles were fully compatible with analogous measurements obtained on a linen sample whose dating, according to historical records, is 55-74 AD, found at Masada, Israel [Herod's famous fortress built on a limestone bedrock overlooking the Dead Sea].The researchers continued: "To make the present result compatible with that of the 1988 radiocarbon test, the Shroud of Turin should have been conserved during its hypothetical seven centuries of life at a secular room temperature very close to the maximum values registered on the earth."

Shroud Of Turin Media

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  Full-length image of the Turin Shroud before the 2002 restoration

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  Pilgrimage badge of Lirey depicting the Shroud and dating between 1355 and 1410

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  Inner courtyard of the palace of the Dukes of Savoy in Chambéry. On the left is the façade of the Sainte-Chapelle where the Shroud was kept until 1578.

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  Guarino Guarini's plan for the Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin, 1682

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  Artistic depiction of the Shroud of Turin, incorporated into a scene of the Descent from the Cross, by painter Giulio Clovio, c. 1540. Clovio shows Jesus's right hand crossed over the left, which is not consistent with the image on the Shroud.

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  17th-century Russian icon of the Mandylion by Simon Ushakov

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  Secondo Pia's 1898 negative of the image on the Shroud of Turin, which has since been used as part of the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. Image from Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne.

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  A Roman loom, c. 2nd century AD

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  Full length negatives of the shroud

References

• Shroud Turin July 24,2019
• comedy-of-errors-1988-c14-dating-of-the-shroud-of-turin02/27/2022
• new-technology-suggests-shroud-of-turin-is-2000-years-old Aleteia April 22,2022
• National Catholic Register December 30,2022
• The Catholic Weekly April 5,2023