Thanks for this informative post. From my protestant background, I was led to believe that the shroud was not necessarily authentic, but just one of those odd inexplicable things - either a hoax, or else not the image of Christ.
Now that I look back on why I held such a belief, it had stemmed from the widespread phobia that ANY image of Christ is \"out of bounds\" for Protestants.
But since my conversion, I no longer have this aversion to icons and images. I haven\'t thought about the shroud of Turin or the Sudarium of Oviedo for quite awhile. Thanks for pointing me back to things I had overlooked.
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