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Shroud of Turin
The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth bearing the faint image of a man, venerated by many as the burial cloth of Jesus. It is first documented at Lirey in France in the 1350s, was acquired by the house of Savoy in 1453 and moved from Chambéry to Turin in 1578. Radiocarbon tests in 1988 dated the linen to the Middle Ages, and the former king Umberto II bequeathed it to the Pope on his death in 1983.
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