Who made the Turin Shroud?

Answer 1

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No one knows who made the shroud of Turin. All we know is that it is said to have been the burial clothe of Jesus and that his body is imprinted on it.

Answer 2

The cloth now known as the Shroud of Turin first appeared about 1355 at a little church in Liry, in north-central France. Its owner, a soldier of fortune named Geoffroy de Charney, claimed it as the authentic shroud of Christ, although he was never to explain how he acquired such a fabulous possession. There is every reason to believe that the Shroud was made specifically for de Charney, or that it had been made not long before he acquired it. However, the specific persons who wove and painted the cloth are unknown.

According to a bishop's report, written in 1389 by Pierre D'Arcis to the Avignon pope, Clement VII, the shroud was being used as part of a faith-healing scam:
"The case, Holy Father. stands thus. Some time since in this diocese of Troyes the dean of a certain collegiate church, to wit, that of Lirey, falsely and deceitfully, being consumed with the passion of avarice, and not from any motive of devotion but only of gain, procured for his church a certain cloth cunningly painted, upon which by a clever sleight of hand was depicted the twofold image of one man, that is to say, the back and the front, he falsely declaring and pretending that this was the actual shroud in which our Saviour Jesus Christ was enfolded in the tomb, and upon which the whole likeness of the Saviour had remained thus impressed together with the wounds which He bore. . . And further to attract the multitude so that money might cunningly be wrung from them, pretended miracles were worked, certain men being hired to represent themselves as healed at the moment of the exhibition of the shroud."

D'Arcis continued, speaking of a predecessor who conducted the investigation and uncovered the forger: "Eventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he discovered the fraud and how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed."

The Shroud of Turin is inconsistent with John 19:39-40, 20:5-7, which specifically state that the body was 'wound' with linen clothes and a large quantity of burial spices ( myrrh and aloes). A separate cloth (the napkin) covered his face and head. In contrast, the Shroud of Turin represents a single, draped cloth without any trace of the burial spices.