Or, more properly, fuck the con artists who think it is something it is not.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oc...es-freeman
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oc...es-freeman
Quote:Turin shroud was made for medieval Easter ritual, historian says
Charles Freeman believes relic venerated as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth dates from 14th century and was used as a prop
Quote:Freeman, the author of Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe, studied early descriptions and illustrations of the shroud. None predates 1355, the year of its first documented appearance in a chapel in Lirey near Troyes in France, before it was acquired by the House of Savoy in 1453 and “converted into a high-prestige relic” to shore up the power base of the insecure Alpine dukedom.