[chesley]

I don’t either.

Another thing. I remember reading years ago, and I don’t know whether it is true or not, that tests had shown that the man shown in the Shroud had been alive when buried.

If true, it would be proof positive, in my view, that it WAS NOT the shroud of Christ. He was dead, according to the Gospels.

[Swordmaker]

Another thing. I remember reading years ago, and I don’t know whether it is true or not, that tests had shown that the man shown in the Shroud had been alive when buried.

A skeptic book claimed that without attribution, but every forensic pathologist who has examined the image on the shroud is in agreement that it is of a dead man.