RE: Shroud of Turin
August 22, 2014 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 3:41 pm by Minimalist.)
I think this is what you were referring to, Chuck.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/...in.shroud/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/...in.shroud/
Quote:An Italian scientist says he has reproduced one of the world's most famous Catholic relics, the Shroud of Turin, to support his belief it is a medieval fake, not the cloth Jesus was buried in. Luigi Garlaschelli says his reproduction of the shroud disproves the claims of its strongest supporters.
Luigi Garlaschelli created a copy of the shroud by wrapping a specially woven cloth over one of his students, painting it with pigment, baking it in an oven (which he called a "shroud machine") for several hours, then washing it.
His result looks like the cloth that many Christians through the centuries have believed is the actual burial shroud of Jesus, he told CNN.
"What you have now is a very fuzzy, dusty and weak image," he said. "Then for the sake of completeness I have added the bloodstains, the burns, the scorching because there was a fire in 1532."
