Empireoftheatom48 said what I saw might have been a replica.
I guess at the time of the controversy from 1978, a year later this might have been an attempt to draw support for the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.
I felt good while viewing it, but it was an outside viewing and a long line of people. Maybe we didn’t pay, I know I paid for a lot of things in Atlanta those two weeks...a lot of money changed hands from mine to theirs.
It’s great you felt that way, I remember watching the people around me and how they were just in awe! Being so close it was remarkable! After dinner that night we walked past the Cathedral could look in an see them setting up for the scientific investigation that had been permitted!
He's right. . .
" In 1578 the relic is moved to Turin, Italy, and first became known as the Shroud of Turin. The move, says historian and Shroud expert Ian Wilson, "was partly because a Cardinal from Milan [Charles Borromeo] was going to visit the Shroud and was planning to take the journey on foot from Milan to Chambery, so they brought the Shroud to Turin to save him part of the journey." Apart from being moved into hiding (to a monastery in Southern Italy—Swordmaker) during World War II, the Shroud has remained in Turin ever since."
Most likely you saw one of the full size high resolution photographs made by the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) official visible light photographer Barrie Schwortz in 1978. He founded the Shroud Website shroud.com, which has become the central clearing house of all scientific and scholarly papers on the Shroud. It's now run by a non-profit. Barrie is a Jew who is convinced the Shroud is authentic.