Why is the Turin Shroud Not Fake?

Abstract

The Turin Shroud [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], the Holy Shroud or simply the Shroud (Figure 1) is the archaeological object, as well as religious, more studied in the world. From a scientific point of view, it is important because it shows a double image of a man up to now not reproducible nor explainable; it is also religiously important because, according to the Christian tradition, it shows some traces of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. A recent paper [12] showed why and in which sense the Shroud is authentic, but many persons still keep on stating the contrary, probably pushed by their religion beliefs that arouses many logical-deductive problems. Consequently, some researchers influence the scientific aspects of the most important Relic of Christianity based on their personal religious aspects thus publishing goal-oriented documents.

About the Shroud Body Image

“…We too are Christians who are certain that the Image is that of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene. The difference is in the modalities of its formation because Physics and Theology together, in the above case, do not agree with the hypothesis of a supernatural event: a man (even if he was in the state of a corpse) cannot emit protons or ultraviolet radiation (Fazio, 2020;Fazio, 2022;Fazio, 2023).…”