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Let’s call the Shroud of Turin what it is… a Fake, and the Church knew it!
On April 21st, 1988, I witnessed on TV with others, who watched Cardinal Archbishop Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero (1913 – 1998) direct a person where to take samples cutting from the Shroud of Turin.
Ballestrero agreed to scientific testing being performed on the Shroud of Turin in October 1978 but refused to permit radiocarbon dating testing as it required removing samples from the shroud itself. Once technical improvements made it possible to use samples the size of postage stamps, the cardinal permitted samples to be cut in April 1988 which he himself supervised to ensure it was carried out appropriately. These would be tested in three labs in Oxford, Zürich, and Arizona.
Following the radiocarbon dating tests, the cardinal announced on 13 October 1988 that the shroud was dated from the Middle Ages and thus not the actual burial cloth of Christ (he said the findings were 95% accurate). However, these tests were later believed to be invalid due to erroneous sampling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Ballestrero. The Catholic Church would say that, forgetting that the samples were taken from the area of the shroud directed by Cardinal Ballestrero.
Today the Catholic Church, and it pseudoscience minions, still argue that the shroud is original, the true shroud of Christ.
Anomalies in favour of the Shroud of Turin being a Fake, and what the Church knew back in the 14th-century! See item 4 below.
1, The Carbon 14C test in 1988, dated the shroud between 1260 and 1390.
2, The most commonly supported range for the man’s height on the Shroud of Turin is between 5’7 (1.7 m) to 6’2 (1.88 m), with 6 feet (1.83 m) being a frequently cited figure. These figures go against the average height of Jews in a German medical experiment done in 1802-1807, which was 155.4 cm, well below the contemporary European. There is no information in any of the gospels to indicate Jesus was tall, being at least a foot taller than the average Jew of his day. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19195937/.
3, Yet, Jewish and Christian historians attest that a one piece coverall was never used as a shroud, before or after the so-called date of Jesus’ execution. The other facts concerning the shroud are, in reality the Jewish tradition has a two or three-piece shroud, never a one piece that covers the entire body. A fact well known to the Christian Church. Not only have they got Sudarium relics, they have John 20:6-7, which states that Jesus had a separate cloth over his head.
4, The first known formal accusation came in 1389, when Bishop Pierre d’Arcis of Troyes wrote to Pope Clement VII, stating that the shroud was a forgery and that the artist had confessed to creating it. He claimed his predecessor, Bishop Henri de Poitiers of Troyes, had investigated the shroud in the 1350s and concluded it was “cunningly painted” and fraudulent.
What do you say?
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Jero Jones
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