The shroud had been damaged in a fire and repairs were made to it. IIRC, the test samples were taken from a repaired area and so reflected the age of the repairs, not the shroud.
thanks. I cant wait to read the whole article. If I read it now i wouldn’t remember anything lol.
My faith gets weak sometimes. Been through some very hard times and when you pray and pray and things get worse, it’s do hard to hold on to faith.
But I have started saying the Rosary again. I’m so naive I dont know if all denominations have a rosary or it’s just a catholic thing.
Either way, God bless all of us Christians, because we have many enemies as Jesus said we would.
I would to touch the shroud.
“Could the carbon dating be fallible?”
“The shroud had been damaged in a fire and repairs were made to it. IIRC, the test samples were taken from a repaired area and so reflected the age of the repairs, not the shroud.”
Also often overlooked or not addressed by reviewers/analysts is that the fire itself would have deposited free carbons from the combusted materials wherever the smoke reached.
It would therefore be the Carbon-14 of burned materials (the wooden box, frames, tapestries, church timbers, pews, altars, etc.) that was being traced, not the original fabric.
It is also utterly shocking that “scientists” would pull a sample for dating from a section that had been so obviously re-weaved. Are they that incompetent or did they have an agenda?
Very convenient. Let’s get to the actual cloth.
The fact that the thing has been floating around for 1000+ years before its ever noted is very suspicious to my mind.
IMHO, of course.