Shroud

The Shroud of Turin apparently has been controversial for quite a while. (My guess about how it might have formed was tested a few years after my post.)

A SciTechDaily post gleefully cites Nicole Oresme's claim that ‘I do not need to believe anyone who claims: “Someone performed such miracle for me,” because many clergy men thus deceive others, in order to elicit offerings for their churches. ‘This is clearly the case for a church in Champagne, where it was said that there was the shroud of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the almost infinite number of those who have forged such things, and others.’

The article doesn't quote Oresme's reasons for holding the Shroud to be fake, just cites his conclusion. Maybe that's all we have, and if the item was fashioned about that era he might have had access to provenance information we don't.

I'm a bit dubious about attributing it to Jesus' burial, because it doesn't seem to match John's description. I could be wrong, of course.