Don’t forget the soldiers pressed the crown on, Christ carried His cross and fell several times, and His blood dried on His body in places. The cross may have pressed it in further when He fell three times.
My point is: it may not have been easy to remove it from His head by the time they got the body down. They were in a rush to inter Him before sundown. They may have just wrapped him quickly, intending to come back and remove the crown of thorns when they buried Him properly.
Or, Christ could have created the image on the Shroud that He wanted to leave with us: the image of the suffering He endured for us.
Has a DNA ever been done on the Shroud?
The reason that crossed my mind is I wondered what it would be like?
Mary was human and had DNA as the maternal side but what about the I am who I am side, that would manifest in terms of DNA like?
Ok maybe that is to Holy of Holies to even think about. Too deep for me.
Time to go feed the dogs and watch some Bourdain “no reservations” before next KV care shift.