Posted on 07/28/2026 6:12:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The forensic evidence was bloody and grim. Thick clotted blood scored the bruised face of the corpse, from a multitude of deep, needle-sharp wounds.
More dried blood could be seen on the arms, feet and ankles, blood that had oozed from brutal injuries that punched through the bones.
These details, pieced together by successive teams of experts in criminal pathology, are captured in the oldest piece of murder evidence in the world: the Shroud of Turin.
The dead man, powerfully built and naked, must have suffered intense agonies... but he did not bleed to death.
Neither was he killed by the deep stab wound in his left side, close to his heart.
There were other wounds too, savage but not fatal – signs of a beating that began at his shoulders and left welts across his back and thighs.
All of these injuries contributed to his death, but the murder weapon was more gruesome still... gravity itself.
The victim was killed by his own body weight. His name, of course, was Jesus of Nazareth.
In his new book, The Shroud Rises, Australian researcher William West reaches a provocative conclusion: that the Shroud of Turin (pictured) does, beyond question, depict the face and body of Jesus Christ.
West (pictured) believes there to be ten irrefutable proofs that the Shroud is not a fake.
His death, by crucifixion at a public execution in Jerusalem around 33AD, must have been slow and unspeakably painful.
Slumped forward and suspended by his arms, he suffocated on the blood and pleural fluid that accumulated around his lungs.
After his body was taken down from the cross, it was wrapped in a linen cloth.
His blood, still wet, stained the cloth and then, so the faithful believe, the likeness of Christ's corpse was miraculously transferred onto the linen.
The earliest definite historical records show a cloth claiming to...
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In 1353 the village of Lirey, in north-central France, was enriched with a small collegiate church endowed by the local feudal lord, a knight named Geoffroi de Charny.[5]: 80 Charny died in 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers.[11] Around 1355, the dean of the chapter of Lirey, Robert de Caillac, began exhibiting in the church a long fabric that bore an image of the mangled body of Jesus.[5]: 81 Nicole Oresme, the Bishop of Lisieux, denounced the shroud as a forgery, believing it to be the work of clergymen for the purpose of making money for their churches.[35][36] In 1390 the Bishop of Troyes, Pierre d’Arcis, who had jurisdiction over the church in Lirey, wrote a lengthy memorandum to Antipope Clement VII (recognized as Pope by the Church in France during the Western Schism), declaring that the Shroud was a forgery and that a previous Bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had identified the artist who had made it.[33][37] Clement issued a bull allowing the canons of Lirey to continue exhibiting the Shroud as long as they made it clear that it was an artistic representation of the passion of Jesus and not a true relic.[5]: 104–107
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In 1353 the village of Lirey, in north-central France, was enriched with a small collegiate church endowed by the local feudal lord, a knight named Geoffroi de Charny.[5]: 80 Charny died in 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers.[11] Around 1355, the dean of the chapter of Lirey, Robert de Caillac, began exhibiting in the church a long fabric that bore an image of the mangled body of Jesus.[5]: 81 Nicole Oresme, the Bishop of Lisieux, denounced the shroud as a forgery, believing it to be the work of clergymen for the purpose of making money for their churches.[35][36] In 1390 the Bishop of Troyes, Pierre d’Arcis, who had jurisdiction over the church in Lirey, wrote a lengthy memorandum to Antipope Clement VII (recognized as Pope by the Church in France during the Western Schism), declaring that the Shroud was a forgery and that a previous Bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had identified the artist who had made it.[33][37] Clement issued a bull allowing the canons of Lirey to continue exhibiting the Shroud as long as they made it clear that it was an artistic representation of the passion of Jesus and not a true relic.[5]: 104–107
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In 1353 the village of Lirey, in north-central France, was enriched with a small collegiate church endowed by the local feudal lord, a knight named Geoffroi de Charny.[5]: 80 Charny died in 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers.[11] Around 1355, the dean of the chapter of Lirey, Robert de Caillac, began exhibiting in the church a long fabric that bore an image of the mangled body of Jesus.[5]: 81 Nicole Oresme, the Bishop of Lisieux, denounced the shroud as a forgery, believing it to be the work of clergymen for the purpose of making money for their churches.[35][36] In 1390 the Bishop of Troyes, Pierre d’Arcis, who had jurisdiction over the church in Lirey, wrote a lengthy memorandum to Antipope Clement VII (recognized as Pope by the Church in France during the Western Schism), declaring that the Shroud was a forgery and that a previous Bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had identified the artist who had made it.[33][37] Clement issued a bull allowing the canons of Lirey to continue exhibiting the Shroud as long as they made it clear that it was an artistic representation of the passion of Jesus and not a true relic.[5]: 104–107
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In 1353 the village of Lirey, in north-central France, was enriched with a small collegiate church endowed by the local feudal lord, a knight named Geoffroi de Charny.[5]: 80 Charny died in 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers.[11] Around 1355, the dean of the chapter of Lirey, Robert de Caillac, began exhibiting in the church a long fabric that bore an image of the mangled body of Jesus.[5]: 81 Nicole Oresme, the Bishop of Lisieux, denounced the shroud as a forgery, believing it to be the work of clergymen for the purpose of making money for their churches.[35][36] In 1390 the Bishop of Troyes, Pierre d’Arcis, who had jurisdiction over the church in Lirey, wrote a lengthy memorandum to Antipope Clement VII (recognized as Pope by the Church in France during the Western Schism), declaring that the Shroud was a forgery and that a previous Bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had identified the artist who had made it.[33][37] Clement issued a bull allowing the canons of Lirey to continue exhibiting the Shroud as long as they made it clear that it was an artistic representation of the passion of Jesus and not a true relic.[5]: 104–107
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In 1353 the village of Lirey, in north-central France, was enriched with a small collegiate church endowed by the local feudal lord, a knight named Geoffroi de Charny.[5]: 80 Charny died in 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers.[11] Around 1355, the dean of the chapter of Lirey, Robert de Caillac, began exhibiting in the church a long fabric that bore an image of the mangled body of Jesus.[5]: 81 Nicole Oresme, the Bishop of Lisieux, denounced the shroud as a forgery, believing it to be the work of clergymen for the purpose of making money for their churches.[35][36] In 1390 the Bishop of Troyes, Pierre d’Arcis, who had jurisdiction over the church in Lirey, wrote a lengthy memorandum to Antipope Clement VII (recognized as Pope by the Church in France during the Western Schism), declaring that the Shroud was a forgery and that a previous Bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had identified the artist who had made it.[33][37] Clement issued a bull allowing the canons of Lirey to continue exhibiting the Shroud as long as they made it clear that it was an artistic representation of the passion of Jesus and not a true relic.[5]: 104–107
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no test of the fabric has ever come close to the age necessary for it to be real.
no other facts are important.
now I will wait for the flood of posts claiming that all previous tests done on it were flawed in some way
What other age tests do you refer to beside the carbon-14 test? There haven’t been any that I’m aware of
I absolutely believe it because the Roman Catholic Church never forged anything.
OH WAIT!
Apparently not, since he wrote another book after this one called "The Shroud Puzzle Solved."
There has only been one test. And the sample was taken from the edge of the shroud. It has been sewn and patched over the centuries and 2 fires. It’s real. We don’t have the technology today to replicate it.
“After his body was taken down from the cross, it was wrapped in a linen cloth.”
Not to be too technical, but the scriptual account says he was wrapped up with a hundred pounds of embalming material. His face was covered, since they did not have time to finish the embalming.
... until it isn't.
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