The Shroud of Turin, which Pope Francis plans to visit and venerate in June, has intrigued me for decades.
Is it, as some believe, the original burial cloth of Jesus Christ? Is it, instead, a medieval fake, as one carbon-dating test concluded (a test that was quickly challenged and, by many, dismissed)? Or is it something else -- perhaps the burial cloth of a crucified man, though not Jesus?
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