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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (46071)	1/30/2000 5:04:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I don't "get" why the fact that the paintings and sculptures of Christ resemble each other is remarkable. That's sort of the point of iconography, isn't it? As for the Shroud of Turin, the carbon dating is unequivocal, it dates from the 14th century, about the same time as it first appeared. If you want to hypothesize about its origin, it strikes me as more likely than not that someone took a fresh corpse, crucified it, and then wrapped it in the shroud, in order to make megabucks off the fraud. The history of relics is replete with frauds, including the enormous volume of wood ostensibly from the true cross. The Catholic Church has never acknowledged that the Shroud of Turin was authentic.