India, April 7 -- Every decade sees a new research that revives interest in the shroud of Turin or what much of Christendom believes to be the burial cloth of Jesus. On Easter, Jesus was resurrected marking the end of Lent (a 40-day Christian liturgical season of prayer and fasting). The new study analyses DNA from the shroud which lies preserved in an inert gas chamber in Turin's Church of John the Baptiste has suggested that the linen for the cloth could have come from the Indian sub-continent. However, Carbon-14 dating of the shroud in the late 1970s concluded that the earliest date for it cannot be before the 1300s.

Aside from the legends that Jesus Christ visited Kashmir during his lifetime and that the shroud was made of cloth manu...