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The Shroud's story, so far as it can be reconstructed, begins in 1354. That's when it was reportedly first displayed in the new church in Lirey, a small village in north-central France.
There was a thriving trade in fake relics at the time, items originating in the Levant often sold to wealthy Catholics. The Dean of Lirey, from whom the Shroud was confiscated in 1354, was himself using it to con people out of money.
In 1389, the local bishop, Pierre d’Arcis, denounced the shroud as a fake. He received a confession from the author of the hoax, and an explanation of how he created the image, using thinned red ochre paint.
This was corroborated in 1978 by Walter McCrone, a microscopist and forensic expert, who examined samples from the shroud's surface. He concluded that the image was painted with a thinned-out red ochre pigment in a gelatin base. He also believed the apparent bloodstains were painted on, using vermilion pigment, also in a gelatin medium.
In 1988 three separate labs performed radiocarbon dating, and they all pinpointed the shroud's age to sometime in the Middle Ages, specifically between 1260 and 1390. This was later contested by a long string of hopeful apologists, funding their own experiments.
The Shroud's story, so far as it can be reconstructed, begins in 1354. That's when it was reportedly first displayed in the new church in Lirey, a small village in north-central France.
There was a thriving trade in fake relics at the time, items originating in the Levant often sold to wealthy Catholics. The Dean of Lirey, from whom the Shroud was confiscated in 1354, was himself using it to con people out of money.
In 1389, the local bishop, Pierre d’Arcis, denounced the shroud as a fake. He received a confession from the author of the hoax, and an explanation of how he created the image, using thinned red ochre paint.
This was corroborated in 1978 by Walter McCrone, a microscopist and forensic expert, who examined samples from the shroud's surface. He concluded that the image was painted with a thinned-out red ochre pigment in a gelatin base. He also believed the apparent bloodstains were painted on, using vermilion pigment, also in a gelatin medium.
In 1988 three separate labs performed radiocarbon dating, and they all pinpointed the shroud's age to sometime in the Middle Ages, specifically between 1260 and 1390. This was later contested by a long string of hopeful apologists, funding their own experiments.
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