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

""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"

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.

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