While my Christian belief does not depend upon nor is much assisted by relics, nonetheless, the Shroud is an on-going amazement and mystery INDEED!
To imagine that there was someone(s) in Europe of the 1300s who was so skilled as to create an image on cloth that was essentially illegible without the photographic technology of 600 years in the future begs many questions for whom the skeptics provide almost no answers.
The old journalist rules of who, when, why, how and where; that just start the list. Artists and artisans of that era did not live in a vacuum, to live and work they had to have patronage, there was always works before and after that shows a pattern of learning and application of the same. The Shroud has nothing of this and there appears to be very little evidence of any ‘similar’ work that is not out-right fakery!
It looks the result of a very high intelligence.
The all wise God.
The shroud is so beautiful but I don’t need it to know he is alive. The graphic artist that worked on it was brought to tears with the brutality he found.
These things have always fascinated me, too. It’s been a while since I read about this and don’t recall everything, but I never saw any convincing explanation of how this would have been created by human hands - it just seems unreasonable, too far outside of the likely.