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Antonio Tempesta Shroud

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I believe that the shroud is not the real burial cloth of Jesus. One reason for this is because research that a man named Charles Freeman did shows that the cloth looks very different today than it did in the 17th century. An engraving done in 1613 by Antonio Tempesta shows that originally, the images found on the shroud were much more pronounced. Some of the features visible in this engraving, such as the Crown of Thorns and the loincloth, are no longer visible when one looks at the shroud today. Another reason for this opinion is that there has been no discovery of significant evidence that the shroud existed before 1355, which is when it appeared in a chapel being advertised as Christ’s burial shroud. The granddaughter of the chapel’s owner,

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