the most famous, and most dubious, holy relic of them all is kept in turin's duomo.
the shroud, said to be the winding-sheet in which the body of christ was wrapped after his crucifixion, owes its fame to the fact that the shroud bears the imprint of a crucified man with a wound in his side, and bruises from what might have been a crown of thorns.
the shroud is one of the most famous medieval relics.
its early history is unclear, but the house of savoy was in possession of it around 1430, and had it displayed in guarini's chapel from 1694.
the "original" shroud, which sits in a silver casket inside an iron box within a marble coffer inside the urn on the chapel altar, in not on view, though a replica is, together with a welter of scientific explanations as to the shroud's possible origins.