The World - News from Sept. 19, 1988
The London Sunday Times reported that the results of laboratory tests in England, Switzerland and Arizona will show that the Shroud of Turin--believed by some to be the burial shroud of Christ--is a fake. “Papal representatives in Italy will announce next month what religious skeptics have long suspected: that the Shroud of Turin is a medieval fake . . . forged between the years 1000 and 1500,” the newspaper said. The Vatican has declined to comment.
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