What is the Shroud of Turin?

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  • The burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth
  • The burial cloth of another First Century crucified man
  • A relic from Medieval times
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A fraud. I.e. none of the above. Looks like a Da Vinci doesn’t it.

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Define “relic” please.

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Given those three options, “a relic from Medieval times” can only mean: An object created in the Middle Ages that is not the actual burial cloth of Jesus and not the burial cloth of any first-century crucified man. In other words, in that poll it functions as the catch-all “none of the below” category, i.e.

  • a medieval devotional object,

  • perhaps a painted or otherwise manufactured image,

  • venerated as a relic,

  • but with no direct historical connection to an actual crucifixion in the first century.

Nothing more specific is forced by the wording—just: Medieval origin, not an authentic first-century burial cloth.