[Swordmaker]

The Shroud is another way God speaks to us. For nearly every investigation into details of the cloth reveals some new wonder, excepting the botched C-14 test of 1988 that was taken from an already scorched patch.

Minor correction. The 1988 C-14 test was not "an already scorched patch" but rather a patch from a corner of the shroud that had been damaged by wear and rewoven, mixing original probable 1st century material made of Linen with 16th century material made of Cotton. The varying mixture 40-60% new mixed with old contaminated the sample to skew the very accurate C-14 test of what was tested into an average, but totally wrong dating of between 1260AD to 1390AD.

[blackpacific]

Thanks for the correction. But was not the repair done because of a fire? Rather than saying “scorched patch” maybe I should have said “scorch that was patched”?