Medieval Scholar Called Out the Shroud of Turin as a Fake, Study Finds - Medievalists.net

Nicole Oresme criticized the Lirey Shroud in the late fourteenth century, warning against false testimony and fabricated miracles and citing the cloth as clerical deception. Oresme's reference predates the better-known 1389–1390 dispute involving Geoffroy II de Charny and Bishop Pierre d'Arcis, in which the bishop accused the shroud of being a painted fake. Papal interventions in 1390 permitted display of the cloth as a "representation" of Christ's Shroud but not as a true relic. The Lirey Shroud became a prolonged polemic and is regarded as a highly documented medieval case of a forged relic.

""This now-controversial relic has been caught up in a polemic between supporters and detractors of its cult for centuries," explains Dr Sarzeaud."

""The Shroud is the most documented case of a forged relic in the Middle Ages, and one of the few examples of a cult denounced and stopped by the Church and clerics.""

""I do not need to believe anyone who claims: "Someone performed such miracle for me", because many clergymen thus deceive others, in order to elicit offerings for their churches. This is clearly the case for a c"

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