The Turin Shroud, allegedly the cloth wrapped around Jesus' crucified body, was finally exposed as a hoax today in 1988. This shouldn't have surprised anybody. For centuries, the Catholic Church had been making money out of exhibiting the chains of St Peter, the finger of St Anthony and the foreskin of Sister Ursula (oh no, that can't be right!) and all of those where fakes, so why not the shroud?
The real miracle is how did a brilliant 14th century artist fake the thing in the first place?
In other news ...
The Queen, God Bless Her, made her first broadcast to the nation today in 1940. She was only 14 and said, on Children's Hour 'We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well.'
And the old girl's been calming us all down ever since.
