singular_me
11th June 2012, 08:24 PM
When I was in my early 30s I read a lot about the shroud and was fascinated, though skeptical.
Okay I am almost sure that many will say it is "genuine" but let's get real, the shroud appeared at the beginning of the Inquisition and while crusades were at their peaks... aint it surprising? So what could have "they" come up with to boost religious fervor so they could have masses' approval to wage more wars? On this one, we'd really have to take into account the historical background and the track records of Vatican.
It is nonetheless a great piece of art...
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The Turin Shroud is Fake: One of 40 Linen Cloths Produced 1,300 Years After Crucifixion
Matthew Kalman
Mail Online
June 11, 2012
Not only is the Turin Shroud probably a medieval fake but it is just one of an astonishing 40 so-called burial cloths of Jesus, according to an eminent church historian.
Antonio Lombatti said the false shrouds circulated in the Middle Ages, but most of them were later destroyed.
He said the Turin Shroud itself – showing an image of a bearded man and venerated for centuries as Christ’s burial cloth – appears to have originated in Turkey some 1,300 years after the Crucifixion.
In a research paper to be published this month in the scholarly journal Studi Medievali, Lombatti says the shroud was most likely given to French knight Geoffroy de Charny as a memento from a crusade to Smyrna, Turkey, in 1346. The de Charny family are the first recorded owners of the shroud.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157217/The-Turin-Shroud-fake-Eminent-historian-claims-40-similar-cloths-originated-1-300-years-AFTER-crucifixion.html#ixzz1xXclcrQT
Okay I am almost sure that many will say it is "genuine" but let's get real, the shroud appeared at the beginning of the Inquisition and while crusades were at their peaks... aint it surprising? So what could have "they" come up with to boost religious fervor so they could have masses' approval to wage more wars? On this one, we'd really have to take into account the historical background and the track records of Vatican.
It is nonetheless a great piece of art...
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The Turin Shroud is Fake: One of 40 Linen Cloths Produced 1,300 Years After Crucifixion
Matthew Kalman
Mail Online
June 11, 2012
Not only is the Turin Shroud probably a medieval fake but it is just one of an astonishing 40 so-called burial cloths of Jesus, according to an eminent church historian.
Antonio Lombatti said the false shrouds circulated in the Middle Ages, but most of them were later destroyed.
He said the Turin Shroud itself – showing an image of a bearded man and venerated for centuries as Christ’s burial cloth – appears to have originated in Turkey some 1,300 years after the Crucifixion.
In a research paper to be published this month in the scholarly journal Studi Medievali, Lombatti says the shroud was most likely given to French knight Geoffroy de Charny as a memento from a crusade to Smyrna, Turkey, in 1346. The de Charny family are the first recorded owners of the shroud.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157217/The-Turin-Shroud-fake-Eminent-historian-claims-40-similar-cloths-originated-1-300-years-AFTER-crucifixion.html#ixzz1xXclcrQT