Shroud of Turin update - Pope Francis supports the relic as a religious icon
Echo essay published in The Conversation by : The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy , houses a fascinating artifact: a massive cloth shroud that bears the shadowy image of a man who appears to have been crucified. Pope Francis prays in front of the Holy Shroud in the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista during a visit to Turin, Italy, in 2015. Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images By Eric Vanden Eykel : My mother pinged me the other day to suggest w e do a story on claims of authenticity regarding the Shroud of Turin, which some Catholics believe is the cloth used to bury Jesus. The cloth bears the “shadowy image of a man who appears to have been crucified,” which believers say was miraculously imprinted when he was resurrected. A 2022, study that suggested the shroud could be 2,000 years old, recently got a lot of attention from backers of this claim. I mentioned it to our always-on-the-ball senior religion editor, Kalpana Jain