Shroud of Turin

[Minimalist]

I think it was a piece of artwork which was later mistaken to be a miracle by gullible fools.

You might be right about that... Or, It could be an ancient version of that one;
http://azwat.blogspot.com/2007/01/girl-t...o-rat.html

LOL.

Seriously, this is what the Shroud looks like.



What Segundo Pia did in 1898 was take a photo and then see the reverse image on the negative. This is the famous "face" depicted ad nauseam by the shroud crowd.

However, if you were standing in the assembly in Lirey, France in 1389 and someone displayed the item depicted in the photo above you'd say "WTF is that?"

That there was anything to see and denounce at the time...as was done by the Bishop of Troyes...means that whatever existed was not what we now call the shroud.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...hroud.html

The history of the Shroud of Turin begins in the middle of the 14th century. In 1357 it was first put on display in the church of Lirey, France, in the Diocese of Troeys, by the widow of French knight Geoffrei de Charnay. How the Shroud came into the hands of de Charnay is not known: it is reported to have first come into his possession somewhere between 1354-55, only a year or two before his death.

What we now see is a medieval work of art, heavily faded by time.