Anyone read the book "Inquest on the Shroud of Turin," by Joe Nickell?

Years ago nearly every person I met who had an interest in the subject absolutely insisted that the shroud had been dated to the early part of the millennium. I tried in vain to tell them that the church had never permitted it to be dated.

Years late, they finally DID date the shroud - and the date came back very close to 1357 - when it was first created in Lirey, France. The actual dating was done by 3 independent labs and they all came up with similar dates.

Since the datings, sindonologists have concocted a story about how the piece of the shroud that was dated was a part that was sewn on at a later date, after the shroud had been damaged.

They make this claim with ZERO evidence. They simply assert it - and because they have asserted it, it must be true. Funny how this randomly spurious date works out to be not some time when the shroud is known to have been damaged, but EXACTLY when the shroud made it's first appearance.