"For centuries, Catholics have flocked to the Italian city of Turin to be in the presence of its famous shroud. The venerated piece of linen, measuring 14ft 5in by 3ft 7in, bears a faint image of the front and back of a man - interpreted by many as Jesus Christ. Believers say it was used to wrap the body of Christ after his crucifixion, leaving his bloody imprint, like a photographic snapshot."
"'I do not need to believe anyone who claims: "Someone performed such miracle for me", because many clergy men thus deceive others, in order to elicit offerings for their churches. 'This is clearly the case for a church in Champagne, where it was said that there was the shroud of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the almost infinite number of those who have forged such things, and others.'"
A venerated linen in Turin bears a faint double image of a man and is widely interpreted by believers as Jesus Christ's burial shroud. A previously unknown 14th-century document by Nicole Oresme (1325–1382) explicitly rejects that cloth as genuine, calling it a clear and patent fake produced by deceptive clergy. The document dates from 1355–82 and associates the shroud's origin with a church in Champagne. The record represents one of the oldest written dismissals of the shroud and supplies unusually detailed allegations of clerical fraud surrounding relic circulation.
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