Regarding “dating tests carried out in 1988 were seriously flawed.” A friend told me that he read an article sometime after the 1988 tests that one of the people, possibly a Sister, who was directed to snip off fragments of the cloth, clipped, not that Shroud, but cloth from one of the repairs that are evident on it...thus the carbon dating showed the date of when one of the burnt portions was repaired, NOT the date of the Shroud itself. Uh, no, but it was a repaired area that incorporated both new and old material that had the new skillfully re-woven into the old using a technique called French Invisible Reweaving developed in the 16th Century to repair expensive tapestries. The mixture distorted the C-14 dating test.