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Details from the Daily Mail<\/a> <\/strong>(with a h\/t to Hot Air<\/a><\/strong>):<\/p>\n

Not only is the Turin Shroud probably a medieval fake but it is just one of an astonishing 40 so-called burial cloths of Jesus, according to an eminent church historian.<\/p>\n

Antonio Lombatti said the false shrouds circulated in the Middle Ages, but most of them were later destroyed.<\/p>\n

He said the Turin Shroud itself \u2013 showing an image of a bearded man and venerated for centuries as Christ\u2019s burial cloth \u2013 appears to have originated in Turkey some 1,300 years after the Crucifixion.<\/p>\n

Lombatti, of the Universit\u00e0 Popolare in Parma, Italy, cited work by a 19th century French historian who had studied surviving medieval documents. \u2018The Turin Shroud is only one of the many burial cloths which were circulating in the Christian world during the Middle Ages. There were at least 40,\u2019 said Lombatti.<\/p>\n

\u2018Most of them were destroyed during the French Revolution. Some had images, others had blood-like stains, and others were completely white.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Turin Shroud is a linen cloth, about 14ft by 4ft, bearing a front and back view of the image of a bearded, naked man who appears to have been stabbed or tortured. Ever since the detail on the cloth was revealed by negative photography in the late 19th century it has attracted thousands of pilgrims to the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Turin.<\/p>\n

In a research paper to be published this month in the scholarly journal Studi Medievali, Lombatti says the shroud was most likely given to French knight Geoffroy de Charny as a memento from a crusade to Smyrna, Turkey, in 1346. The de Charny family are the first recorded owners of the shroud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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