Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

Mechthild Flury-Lemberg a Holdout

Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, who directed a controversial restoration of the shroud in 2002, was another holdout. During the restoration she had not seen any evidence of repairs and stated that “reweaving in the literal sense does not exist” and that any such reweaving would be visible on the back side of the cloth.

But the invisible reweaving art did exist. It existed in medieval Europe just as it does today.  In a peer-reviewed paper presented at the Third International Dallas Conference on the Shroud of Turin in September, 2005, Benford and Marino explain why the repairs may not have been noticed. And they corrected Flury-Lemberg’s statement that any such repair would have been visible on the back side of the cloth.