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Oct 2021
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Shroud of Turin

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In Turin, Italy there’s a piece of cloth that has perplexed religious experts for decades. Is the Shroud of Turin one of the greatest antiquities known to us? Or nothing more than a medieval hoax?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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