Shroud of Turin News, September 2024 - September 2025

© Stephen E. Jones[1]

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This is the first instalment of my Shroud of Turin News for September 2024 - September 2025. The articles are in reverse date order (most recent first). My words will be in [bold square brackets] to distinguish them from those of the articles'.

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"Researchers find oldest written claim that the Shroud of Turin wasfaked," CNN, Taylor Nicioli, 4 September 2025 ... Now, researchers have found new evidence that the authenticity of the cloth was disputed in writing earlier than once thought:

[Right (enlarge): Full-length negative image of the Shroud (Wikipedia)[STW]. Could an unknown medieval forger really have created this? Or does Naturalism's Emperor have no clothes?]

[When I was gaining my Biology degree we were told not to write a scientific paper until we had spent at least a year, reading everything about it. The author of the article, "A New Document on the Appearance of the Shroud of Turin from Nicole Oresme: Fighting False Relics and False Rumours in the Fourteenth Century," that these news articles are based on, Nicolas Sarzeaud (1992) evidently has not read pro-Shroud literature. In 1978, ~47 years ago, Ian Wilson (1941-) published an English translation of the 1389 Memorandum of Bishop Pierre d'Arcis, in which he stated:

"For many theologians and other wise persons declared that this could not be the real shroud of our Lord having the Saviour's likeness thus imprinted upon it, since the holy Gospel made no mention of any such imprint, while, if it had been true, it was quite unlikely that the holy Evangelists would have omitted to record it, or that the fact should have remained hidden until the present time"[WI78, 230]

So there were many Shroud sceptics in Oresme's day. That is understandable because it was not until Secondo Pia (1855-1941) photographed the Shroud in 1898 and discovered that the Shroudman's image was a photographic negative[22Dec16; 05Jun21] that scientists and the general public began to take the Shroud seriously as possibly Jesus' burial sheet.]

To be continued in the second instalment of this post.

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Bibliography
RTB. Reference(s) to be provided.
STW. "Shroud of Turin," Wikipedia, 8 October 2025.
WI78. Wilson, I., 1978, "The Turin Shroud," Book Club Associates: London.

Posted 9 October 2025. Updated 9 October 2025.