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To: Ilaine who wrote (46077)	1/31/2000 12:42:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

A lot of the icons appear to have come from a common source, and they include very specific details peculiar to the image on the shroud. As for the image being the result of a freshly killed corpse, that would only be a possibility if the wounds were identical to the shroud image. Some 14th century artist would have to have had remarkable knowledge of the effects of scourging and crucifixion wounds. He would have to know that the thumb pulls into the palm of the hand and a number of other very specific details. Moreover, the image is a photographic negative and didn't reveal its full detail until the cloth was first photographed several hundred years after the 14th century. And no one has ever been able to duplicate the image. The image appears to be lightly seared onto the top layer of the threads. There's no pigments embedded in the fabric. The only important data is the carbon 14, but other textiles which are known to be ancient have dated 'young', so that's not a definitive argument. Moreover, the shroud was exposed to heavy smoke in a medieval fire, and in fact was itself singed, which may have affected the small sample that was dated. Basically you're criticisms are bush league and indicate you haven't read up on the shroud, which is truly intriguing whatever it may be. It was never displayed to make money, it was hidden away instead of being displayed like other relics. It turned up in the possession of a knight who had been on the Crusades. It may well have been looted from... St Sophia's, I believe it is, in Byzantium. The cloth is an unusual weave, it has pollens typical of Palestine embedded in the fabric. The image is a negative, it appears to be singed on the fabric and it has 3-D characteristics that were revealed when it was subjected to computer enhancement. And on and on.