![]() Shortly thereafter, it was moved to the Cathedral of Turin in northern Italy, from which it gets its name.īy the 20th century, it was an accepted truth within the Catholic Church that the shroud was authentic. Although there was no written record of any such shroud for hundreds of years after Jesus's death and the first confirmed documentation of its existence is a 1390 letter from Biship Pierre d'Arcis to Pope Clement VII declaring the shroud a fake, there was no dissuading certain true believers. In 1506, Pope Julius II announced that the Shroud of Turin was an authentic religious relic that should be venerated. In 1532, after the shroud was almost destroyed when the French chapel where it was stored caught fire, a group of nuns sewed patches over the burn marks. To the Catholic Church, it confirmed something they'd long believed: that the image of Jesus was miraculously burned into the fabric of his burial shroud. In 1898, an Italian photographer named Secondo Pia became the first person allowed to take a photograph of the Shroud of Turin, and when he developed the film in his darkroom, he was astonished to see the faint markings reverse their colors and the clear image of a face materialize on his negatives. It's also a reverse image, like a photographic negative, somehow created long before the invention of photography. ![]() ![]() Not only has it somehow been imprinted with the face and body of a man, the image of that man's body appears to display injuries consistent with crucifixion. The Shroud of Turin is no ordinary blankie. ![]()
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