The Shroud of Turin: The Most Up-To-Date Analysis of All the Facts Regarding the Church's Controversial Relic Relics: The Shroud of Turin, the True Cross, the Blood of Januarius...History, Mysticism, and the Catholic Church Sacred Blood, Sacred Image : The Sudarium of Oviedo, New Evidence for the Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure of Discovery Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin: New Scientific Evidence The Shroud of Turin: A Case of Authenticity Holy Shroud of Turin Report on the Shroud of Turin

• The Shroud of Turin has been the premier relic of Christendom for nearly eight centuries now. The purported burial cloth of Jesus, this has been in Turin Cathedral since the High Middle Ages. ...

• The image of Jesus on the left was drawn over a copy of the shroud on the right.
• For more information on the Shroud of Turin, there is an interesting site here.

• Turin Shroud may be genuine after all.
• 24 (UPI) — The Turin Shroud bearing the features of a crucified man may well be the cloth that enveloped the body of Christ, a renowned textile historian told United Press International Tuesday. ...
• Disputing inconclusive carbon-dating tests suggesting the shroud hailed from medieval times, Swiss specialist Mechthild Flury-Lemberg said it could be almost 2,000 years old. ...
• Perhaps even more important is what Flury-Lemberg saw when she examined the back of the shroud — the first researcher ever to do so. ...
• Flury-Lemberg, a Hamburg-born scholar now living in Berne, Switzerland, did preservation work on the shroud this summer. ...
• Some theologians believe this may have occurred as Christ's body exited the shroud during his resurrection. ... The same applied to the question if the tortured and crucified man buried in the shroud was Jesus. ...
• She explained the linen's progressing oxidization had been endangering the shroud. ... " She cleaned the shroud before it was sewn to a new cloth. ...
• Pollen analysis and the shroud's measurements suggested it originated in the Middle East and not in medieval Europe. ...
• According to the Berne scholar, other first-century cloths found in the Red Sea region showed weaving patterns similar to those of the Turin Shroud. ...
• She made it clear she was not a Roman Catholic but a Lutheran, "but this shroud is not just a Catholic relic but a treasure of all Christendom. ...
• She said regardless of this impression, she has had to work on the Shroud dispassionately "like a surgeon operating on his own wife. ...
• "Of course it had such particles on it," she said, "after all, the Shroud was exhibited a great deal in those days. ...
• "On the Shroud we see a genuine 'photography' that originated long before photography was invented," Dietz said. ...
• If it was that, test results show it must have occurred no later than 36 hours after the dead man's bloody body had been wrapped in this expensive shroud. ...

• Flower images on Shroud of Turin subject of Israeli professor's talk .
• CHAPEL HILL -- Hundreds of flower images on the Shroud of Turin will be the subject of a 1:30 p. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot, 3-inch cloth that some believe to have been the burial shroud of Jesus. ...
• The flower images on the shroud were documented in research by Duke University psychiatry professor Dr. ... I can't say for certain that it was Jesus' shroud, but there is no doubt that it comes from the land of Israel. ...

• North Texas Skeptics The Shroud of Turin .
• Here are the books about the Shroud controversy .
• Inquest on the Shroud of Turin : Latest Scientific Findings .
• Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin .
• The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin : New Scientific Evidence .
• Not Made by Hands : The Miraculous Images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Shroud of Turin .
• Relic, Icon or Hoax? : Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud .
• Relics : The Shroud of Turin, the True Cross, the Blood of Januarius. ...
• The Second Messiah : Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry .
• The Second Messiah : Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry .
• The Shroud of Turin : The Most Up-To-Date Analysis of All the Facts Regarding the Church's Controversial Relic .
• The Shroud of Turin and the C-14 Dating Fiasco .
• The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure of Discovery .
• Turin Shroud and Science .
• The Turin Shroud Is Genuine : The Irrefutable Evidence .
• The DNA of God : Newly Discovered Secrets of the Shroud of Turin .

• The Shroud of Turin Enigma.
• This spring huge crowds clamored to Turin, Italy to see a rare public exhibition of the most controversial church relic known in Christendom, the Shroud of Turin. ... In 1532, a fire broke out in the church where the Shroud was kept in a silver reliquary. The heat of the fire caused one side of the reliquary to melt and molten silver fell upon one of the corners of the folded Shroud charring it somewhat. The repair work was entrusted to local Poor Clare nuns who carefully removed the burned portion of the Shroud and sewed new pieces of linen in their place. ... (The Shroud was also rescued from a fire in the chapel in 1997--this time suffering no damage).
• In 1898 an amateur photographer, Seconda Pia, took the first photographs of the Shroud causing a wave of new excitement because many of the features on the shroud were much clearer in the photographic negative than in the positive prints (see below). ...
• The Shroud has been in Turin, Italy since 1578. ... In the same year a team of reputable international scientists, STURP, (2) began intensively studying the Shroud (spending eventually over $5M). ... These studies, along with various others, combine to make the Shroud of Turin the most intensively studied single object in history. The tests showed that the Shroud images are not any kind of artistic production but are the result of physical/chemical changes in the linen fibers themselves. ... The colored stains on the Shroud were thought by some to be paint pigments, but others believed them to be blood, DNA and "bioplastics. ...
• Shroud researchers around the world then split into two camps: Those scientists who took the radio-carbon dates as the final word on the date, began to look for other sources for the shroud. Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince (3) built their case on the assumption that the church commissioned Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) to paint the Shroud. ... Knight and Lomas believe de Molay was crucified but did not immediately die and that the image on the Shroud of Turin is his. ...
• Ian Wilson, who has been involved in Shroud research for more than three decades, (5) builds a strong case for possible sources of error in the radio-carbon dating. He defends the historicity of the Shroud step by step prior to the time when it first went on public display in 1357. Wilson reviews all the available evidence and clearly shows that the case is not at all conclusive for a date of origin of the Shroud in the 14th or 15th Century. As a committed Christian, Wilson not only believes that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was an actual historic event, he suggests that the images on the Shroud can only be explained as some kind of "radiation flash" that occurred when the body of Jesus was transformed and raised from the dead on Easter morning. Some Bible scholars are willing to argue from the Bible alone that the Shroud is not typical of First-Century Israel (7), but Wilson does not overlook this criticism either. Wilson and others (6) call attention to the fact that the Shroud has always inspired faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that it is not usually revered for its own sake.

• THE SHROUD OF TURIN.
• The shroud of Turin is an intriguing relic and it turns out to be one of those cases where truth is far more interesting than the myth. And clearly I've already tipped my hand here, but seriously most intelligent and unbiased debate now centers on the strong conclusion that the Shroud of Turin is a manufactured icon, albeit meticulously crafted. ...
• In case you don't know the shroud of Turin is purported by some to be the original linen cloth used to wrap Jesus Christ's body in after he was removed from the cross some 2000 years ago. ...
• The actual image is an optical negative, and it wasn't until the shroud was photographed and the negative viewed that it gained its modern notoriety because the Christ image became apparent. ...
• Photo-positive image of the Shroud including burn marks from a Church fire.
• The first and perhaps most serious obstacle to the legitimacy of the shroud is the physical shape of the image. ... Conversely if the shroud was wrapped loosely enough to catch the indented parts of the body and face then the image would have to be distorted, rendering a very un-human looking image to the casual observer. ...
• It is acknowledged that the image which appears on the Shroud of Turin is caused by oxidation to the upper fibrils of the cloth (Allen, 1995a:21-35). ... The focussed image of a sun-illuminated corpse or body-cast will produce a shroud-like image after eight to twenty four hours of exposure, which makes use of an optically clear bi-convex quartz lens. ... In this regard, these experimental images, which are produced by use of materials, apparatus and chemicals which collectively are known to have been available to both Islamic and Christian scholars by at least the thirteenth century may be safely compared with those found on the Shroud of Turin, addressing as they do, each and every image characteristic as identified by the STURP committee in 1977. As is the case with the Shroud of Turin, the images produced by this method have a slightly top-lit quality and display visual distortions in keeping with spherical aberration as caused by the agency of a lens. The Shroud of Turin and the Singlet Oxygen Fallacy PROF NICHOLAS P. ...
• Personally I wouldn't put too much into the radiocarbon dating for something as recent as the Shroud because the error factor is too spread; if it was a million years old - different story. ...
• However for religious followers, being superstitious by nature, the Shroud essentially takes on that perforce role. Since religious beliefs can't be disproved the faithful continue to flock to view the Shroud, believing it to be a powerful symbol of Christianity. And still after several hundred years the Shroud fulfills it's role bringing in the parishioners remarkably well, making it one of the best investments the Church ever made. ...

• The Shroud of Turin.
• Was the Shroud of Turin the world's first linen car cover?.
• Please do not let this be your last pilgrimage to the Shroud. ...

• Shroud of Turin (1978).
• It was on this date, August 25, 1978, that the famous Shroud of Turin, still venerated as the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus, went on public display for the first time in 45 years. Since 1578 the shroud, or sindon, has been housed at Turin, where it is only displayed publicly at long intervals. ...
• In the past, there was some competition from other shrouds impressed with the figure of Jesus — at Besançon, Cadouin, Champiègne, Xabregas, and other places — which also claimed to be the authentic linen sindon provided by Joseph of Arimathea, but the Turin shroud is the most famous. Pope Julius II accepted the Shroud at Turin as genuine in his Bull "Romanus Pontifex" (25 April 1506), as did his predecessor, Sixtus IV. ... If the marks we perceive were caused by a human body, it is clear that the body (supine) was laid lengthwise along one half of the shroud while the other half. ... Joe Nickell, who collaborated with scientific and technical experts on his Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (2nd Ed. , 1992) and Walter McCrone, a microchemist, in his Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin (1999), both demonstrate that the shroud is a medieval fake. ...
• A face in the Shroud.
• Shroud supporters say there is type AB blood on the shroud. ... And even if there were blood on the shroud, that would have no bearing on the age of the shroud or on its authenticity: blood could have contaminated the shroud at any time. Besides, dried real blood is black, but the stains on the shroud are red — we mustn't credit too many miracles! Shroud supporters say the cloth has some pollen on it of plants found only in the Dead Sea region of Israel. Yet scientists say the samples tested were lifted from the shroud with sticky tape and came to their examiner second-hand: they could have been introduced at any time. Shroud supporters say they detect impressions of flowers on the shroud that could only have come from Israel. ...
• As Robert Todd Carroll sums up, in his article on the shroud from the Skeptic's Dictionary, Even if it is established beyond any reasonable doubt that the shroud originated in Jerusalem and was used to wrap up the body of Jesus, so what? Would that prove Jesus rose from the dead? I don't think so. ... The shroud was displayed again for a time, from 18 April 1998. ...

• Latest Shroud Update.
• Shortly after I learned through careful study of the 32 sticky-tapes taken from the Shroud that the image substance was paint, I made up two paints; one with pigment (red ochre) and gelatin solution and the other with diluted blood. ... The red ochre-painted linen yielded tapes indistinguishable from the Shroud tapes. ...
• (see: Judgement Day For The Turin Shroud, p. ...
• Shroud blood on linen. ...
• (see: Judgement Day For The Turin Shroud, p. ...
• magnification (1000X) real blood, again brown, unlike the Shroud paint (Figure 2).
• (see: Judgement Day For The Turin Shroud, p. ...
• The tape of a Shroud blood-image (area 3-CB) showing only a.
• (see: Judgement Day For The Turin Shroud, p. ...
• These figures show conclusively that the Shroud blood images are paint. ...
• There is NO blood on the Shroud. The Shroud is a beautiful painting by an inspired medieval artist. ...
• Anyone wishing to continue in the delusion that the Shroud is an actual burial shroud can follow the following link: (http://www. shroud. ...
• Vinland Map / Shroud Update Page.

• RESTORATION OF SHROUD OF TURIN IS COMPLETED.
• TURIN, Italy, SEPT. ... - The figure of the crucified man imprinted on the Shroud of Turin can now be more clearly seen, following its restoration by experts. ...
• At the official presentation of the restored shroud Saturday, Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, explained that the purpose of the work was to guarantee the conservation of the cloth. The work involved the removal of patches sewn on the shroud 470 years ago. ...
• The cardinal, who is the relic's pontifical custodian, said that the restoration was carried out with the permission of the Holy See (which owns the shroud), and in keeping with the advice of technical experts. ...
• The restoration of the shroud, in which according to tradition the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion, was carried out last June and July in the sacristy of the Turin cathedral. ...
• Thirty triangular patches, sewn by nuns of Chambery, France, in 1534, after a fire damaged the relic in 1532, were removed from the shroud. Also removed was the "Holland cloth" sewn on the reverse of the shroud 450 years ago to preserve it. ...
• Cardinal Poletto said the shroud must not become a source of conflict, division or controversy, but a point of reference for deeper reflection and prayer. He expressed the hope that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and John Paul II will be able to meet in Turin and pray together before the shroud. A great devotion to the shroud exists in Russia. ...
• The shroud, measuring 4. ... The chapel of the Turin cathedral where the shroud is kept is constantly under surveillance. ...
• For the first time, both sides of the Shroud of Turin have been reproduced on computers. Cardinal Poletto said a dossier will be sent to the Vatican, which could then call for further scientific studies of the shroud. ...

• The Shroud of Turin.
• The mysterious Shroud of Turin has now become world famous. ...
• The shroud has been kept in the cathedral in Turin, Italy since 1578. ...
• Could the Shroud of Turin really be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ? Should the cloth be held as a sacred object, as so many millions of people do?.
• " John 19:40 is much more specific, describing strips of linen cloth (not a single sheet, as is the Shroud of Turin), "in accordance with Jewish burial customs. ...
• These verses state clearly that there were strips of linen used, along with a burial cloth that had only been around Jesus' head - not the full length of His body as would be the case in the Shroud of Turin.
• " Would Paul have made such a statement if the long-haired man in the shroud were Jesus Christ?.
• Using samples provided, scientists, using carbon dating techniques, have dated the shroud to between 1260 and 1390. Their test results say that the Shroud of Turin is only about 600 years old, not the nearly 2,000 years old that it would have to be if it were the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
• The first carbon-dating tests were emotionally attacked by those who had placed their faith in it, but further testing has had the same results - the shroud originated only about 6 centuries ago. Those results caused the Cardinal of Turin, Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, to declare that the shroud was not the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. ...
• There is much that remains unexplained about the Shroud of Turin, including the question of how the image was made on the cloth. It certainly is a valuable old artifact, however there is now very little evidence to support the belief that it originated at the time of Jesus Christ, or that it was His burial shroud.

• The Shroud of Turin: All sides of the issue: .
• "The Shroud of Turin is a genuine artifact of a first century Roman crucifixion of an adult Jewish male. ... The Shroud of Turin is not the artifice of a forger. ...
• " Bruce Monson expressing skepticism that the Shroud of Turin dates to the 1st century CE. ...
• What is the shroud?.
• The Shroud of Turin is a piece of linen cloth 1. ... Many devout Christians believe that this shroud was the fabric used to wrap Jesus after his crucifixion circa 30 CE.
• Most investigators assume that there are only two possible explanations about the nature of the Shroud:.
• That it is the actual burial shroud of Jesus, having survived from the 1st century CE, or.
• That it is a religious relic; a piece of artwork;  a type of painting, devoutly created to portray what the shroud might have looked like.
• That it is the burial shroud of a crucified man other than Jesus, which has survived from the 1st century CE.
• Introduction to the shroud: .
• What do people believe the shroud to be? .
• History of the shroud. ...
• Analysis of the shroud: .
• First impressions of the shroud. ...

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• Since the mid-thirteenth century the sides have been lining up to argue the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. ...
• The Shroud was thought to be a painted fake until it was shown that no artist had ever painted in the negative. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is packed with pieces of evidence that relate the image to Jesus.
• The Shroud of Turin-Part One: Introduction, background, and old theories.
• The Shroud of Turin-Part Two: Recent evidence: shadows, hair, micrographs, the "upright" man.
• The Shroud of Turin-Part Three: The flat image, summary and conclusion.

• The Continuing Mystery of the Shroud (Part 3).
• Following is the third part of a four-part series concerning the Shroud of Turin.
• Last week we began our review of the scientific evidence concerning the Shroud of Turin, examining the cloth itself, which clearly originated in Palestine, and the blood stains, which point to a scourged and crucified man. ...
• Also, Father Filas noted that later Byzantine coinage was engraved with an image of Christ Pantocrator which bore a striking resemblance to the facial image of the shroud, which would attest to the shroud’s presence in Constantinople.
• In 1978, Piero Ugolotti reported that he had detected barely visible traces of letters and words in Greek, Latin and Hebrew near the face on the shroud, which were corroborated by philologist Aldo Marastoni of the Catholic University of Milan. In 1995, scientists with the Paris Institut d’Optique also reported finding letters and words on the sides of the facial image on the shroud. ...
• John Jackson of the STURP team produced a 3-dimensional picture from the shroud. ... This evidence again confirms that the shroud is not like a painting. ...
• The photographs of the shroud also seem to be like X-rays with the images of bones visible. ...
• Gilbert Lavoie in his Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud presented another intriguing discovery. The negative image of the shroud as compared with the negative images of photography reveals that the man in question had either white or light blond hair. ...
• The STURP team provided the following summary of its findings, worth noting after a review of all of this evidence: "We can conclude for now that the shroud image is that of a real human form of a scourged, crucified man. ...
• Although the STURP team did not declare the shroud to be the actual burial cloth of Christ, the evidence presented at least supports a person’s private belief that it is.
• Given this scientific evidence, next week we will examine some of the more controversial points surrounding the shroud.

• 7 > Shroud of Turin.
• The Shroud of Turin.
• spoke March 8 on the durably problematic Shroud of Turin. The shroud is an ancient religious relic kept in the Royal Chapel, a Roman Catholic cathedral in Turin, Italy. It is believed by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus. Skeptics are inclined to believe that the shroud is a medieval hoax. ... In his opinion the authenticity of the shroud has been neither proved nor disproved. Those who believe it is the burial shroud of Jesus have only their faith to support their claim, while those who insist that it is a medieval hoax are confronted with inconvenient shreds of evidence they have been unable to sweep away.
• A major proponent of the devout view of the shroud is Rodney Hoare, who wrote The Turin Shroud Is Genuine: The Irrefutable Evidence (1994) a book dedicated to proving the authenticity of the shroud, if not to an impartial assessment of the evidence regarding the shroud. Skeptic Joe Nickell has written a book representing the major skeptical position on the shroud, that it was a medieval fake. His book is The Inquest on the Shroud of Turin, published in 1983.
• Dick began his guided tour with a description of the shroud, a strip of ivory linen 14 feet long, three feet seven inches wide, and obviously a burial shroud. Imprinted on the shroud is a faint image, easier to see in a photograph than when viewing the shroud itself, of the front and back of a naked, bearded, and apparently crucified body. The image is formed as though the shroud were laid under the entire length of the body, up over the head, and from the head down to the toes. ...
• There is documentary evidence that the shroud passed through many hands before it reached its current home in Turin. But establishing the falsity or authenticity of the shroud is hampered by gaps in the historical record of its whereabouts. ... There are scattered reports of a shroud bearing an image by pilgrims visiting biblical lands in the centuries before the crusades. The Knights Templar captured the shroud during their siege of Constantinople in 1100, took it to France, and placed it in the care of Jeffrey DeCharny. ... The shroud has been at Turin since 1578.

• The Shroud of Turin's .
• Shroud of Turin Survives Suspicious Fire .
• A fire in downtown Turin, Italy, tore through the San Giovanni Renaissance cathedral, which has served as home for the legendary Shroud of Turin since 1578. ...
• But incredibly, firefighters were able to rescue the Shroud from the flames without so much as a singe. ...
• Fireman Mario Trematore is responsible for saving the Shroud, having risked his life to charge through the 15th century cathedral's interior as the fire raged. He had to reach the black marble chapel of the Holy Shroud at the back of San Giovanni, where the cloth has long been enshrined inside a large reliquary made of silver and glass. Tight security measures meant to protect the icon now became a severe obstacle, as Trematore had to smash through eight layers of bulletproof glass with a sledgehammer to reach the Shroud's container. ...
• Even though the Roman Catholic Church has never recognized the cloth as a true holy relic, the Vatican owns the Shroud of Turin and treats it with reverence.
• "A miracle," Pope John Paul II commented of the Shroud's rescue. ...
• As the Pope suggests, fire has threatened the Shroud several times before. ... This incident has become a key factor in the ongoing debate over the Shroud's true age. ...
• Shroud scholar Vittorio Messori is convinced this was no accident.
• In fact the Internet is full of the sick fantasies of people who want to destroy the Shroud. ...
• Turin's fire brigade received an anonymous phone call warning of a "fire in the city" half and hour before the San Giovanni blaze. ...
• as well as the Shroud of Turin. ...
• It seems an unusually egregious lapse in security for the San Giovanni cathedral's staff, which has been known for its stringent protectiveness for the Shroud of Turin's welfare.

• The Shroud of Turin.
• The Shroud of Turin Website.
• With zoomable images of the shroud.
• The Mysteries of the Shroud LINK FIXED 11th April, 2003.
• Review of The Mysteries of the Shroud.
• The Book you were supposed to rush out and buy was, "The Turin Shroud: in whose image?" Here it is reviewed by Professor Daniele Scavone of the University of Southern Indiana. ...
• Leonardo did NOT fake the shroud.
• He has also published a book on the Shroud.
• Report on the Czechia Shroud Copy.
• In January of this year, an old copy of the Turin shroud was discovered in the Czeck town of Broumov. ...
• A new study claims that the shroud was produced in the 8th century, or even possibly in the 1st. ...
• Finally, you might want to visit the Official Catholic Church Shroud of Turin Site.

• Science Explains the Image on the Shroud of Turin.
• Sue Benford’s excellent article Empirical Evidence Supporting Macro-Scale Quantum Holography in Non-Local Effects, not only offers up a plausible scientific explanation for a very unusual phenomena but taking it one step further, this concept of holographic biophysical radiation offers a plausible scientific explanation for the presence of the image on the Shroud of Turin. ...
• The Shroud of Turin has been quite a mystery as no one has been able to give a plausible explanation as to how it was created. ...   Characteristics of the image though historically date it to the first century based on the techniques of crucifixion and religious traditions that are evident on the shroud and its image. ...
• The fact that the image on the shroud's image is enhanced by various optical techniques such as VP-8 analyses and 3-D software reveal aspects of the Shroud that could not be seen by the human eye, supports the theory that the image was created by some type of biological holographic radiation.   At the very least because there are aspects previously unknown and unable to be seen that are historically accurate to the first century, it tells us that the Shroud could not have been "made. ...
• The Shroud's image can not be explained by some mechanism of bodily contact, as that would have yielded a distorted image (much wider appearing). ...   This concept of holographic biophysical radiation would explain how a non-distorted image could have been imprinted onto the shroud. ...
• Bedford, I do wish that she would have delineated out the applicability of her research to the Shroud of Turin in her paper. ...

• Secrets of the Shroud. ...
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• little alarmed to discover that "Shroud of Turin" drosnins to .
• indicate the shroud's authenticity. ...
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• The Shroud of Turin.
• No single Christian artifact is more challenging to skeptics than the Shroud of Turin: Once dismissed as a particularly adept medieval forgery, in recent years it has been gaining even more scientific support that it is precisely what tradition has always claimed it is – the burial cloth that for 30 hours was wound about the recumbent body of the crucified Jesus.
• In 1988, the shroud’s credibility suffered a setback after three separate carbon-dating tests placed the origin of its linen fibers no earlier than the 13th century AD, about the time it received what has long been assumed to be its first documented references in western Europe. But at a congress in May in Vienna, scientific researchers detailed solid scientific reasons why carbon dating might never work with the shroud.
• Meanwhile, an increasing amount of research unrelated to carbon dating continues to point to a first-century Palestinian origin for the shroud’s material. ...
• Turin University pathologist Dr. Pieluigi Baima Bollone added that close examination of the cloth revealed images of two coins from the time of Pontius Pilate on the shroud, a further indication the image predated the Middle Ages.
• But perhaps the most significant material presented in Vienna came from Piero Savarino, professor of industrial organic chemistry at the University of Turin. In an interview with the Register, Savarino pointed out that the human image on the shroud rests on the outer fibers of the linen weave, in a layer thinner than a human hair. ...
• And while those pyrols can be found in abundance in the parts of the shroud scorched by the various cathedral fires it has suffered through the centuries, none are connected to the image itself.
• Alan Whanger, professor emeritus of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and Director of the Council for study of the Shroud of Turin. "His body would have given off massive amounts of radiation as it dematerialized and passed through the Shroud, leaving a kind of negative photograph with an X-ray component relating to the bones resting near the material. ...
• Whanger noted that Canadian physicist Thaddeus Trenn, director of the science and religion program at the University of Toronto, has hypothesized that an influx of energy overcame the strong force that bound together the protons and neutrons in the body of the man lying in the Shroud. ... Moreover, Trenn has pointed out, the dematerialization theory is supported by distortions in the Shroud image that indicate that it was collapsing in upon itself at the precise moment the image was being produced. ...
• That could explain why attempts at carbon-14 dating have failed to support the Shroud’s authenticity. "I don’t think they’ll ever get the carbon dating to line up with the rest of what we know about the shroud," Whanger said.

• Revelation 13: The Shroud of Turin and its connection to comets -- an Astrology and New Age Analysis .
• The Shroud of Turin is believed to be the burial cloth of Christ, by many people. It is a a 14 foot long cloth religious relic that is stored in Turin, Italy, in a cathedral. ... On April 11, 1997, there was a fire in the Cathedral holding the Shroud of Turin, the Shroud was miraculously saved because of the bravery of a Turin fireman who rescued it from the building. This is the second time the shroud has escaped a fire. ... An interesting coincidence is that both of these shroud fires occurred at the time of bright comets. The biblical quote in the book of Mark that describes Jesus being wrapped in the shroud after the crucifixion, Mark 15:46 (King James Version):.
• First we will consider the issue of the Shroud's authenticity: is it the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, or is it a forgery? There were many forgeries of religious objects in the Middle Ages, at the time the Shroud appeared with a French Knight, Geoffrey de Charney. But the Shroud may have been the Mandylion, an early Christian religious relic that was said to have Christ's face on a cloth. ...
• Above: The face on the Shroud.
• Supporting the claim that the Shroud is authentic is the fact that Geoffrey de Charney was a Knight who was the model for chivalry and would never have been involved with a forgery. It seemed to be clear that the Shroud was a fake in 1988, when the results of carbon tests on the Shroud were released, that indicated a date of 1325. ... So, that is how the issue stands today, there is no decisive evidence either way, but the pendulum is swinging again in the direction of increasing evidnce that the Shroud may truly be the burial cloth of Christ. The image of the Shroud is on the surface, as if the body wrapped in it dematerialized into radiation leaving the image. And examination of the Shroud indicates wounds and bleeding consistent with being produced by crucifixion. ...
• At the time the the Shroud appeared in 1349, the people in Europe had been going through the Black Plague, which had significantly reduced the population of Europe. It was as if the Shroud appeared then during the darkest of times for humanity. ...

• As the Turin Shroud is put on display for the first time in twenty years, controversy rages over whether or not it is a fake, and if so, how was it created? Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are in no doubt - and have taken on the Church and the art world to prove it.
• And if, as we have come to believe, his secret, heretical beliefs led him to create another major work, paradoxically at once incredibly famous and yet equally elusive - the Turin Shroud - then the real Leonardo da Vinci is only just coming into his own in a big way. ...
• Our own quest to find the real Leonardo began (although we didn't know it at the time) on 13 October 1988, when the Turin Shroud was finally carbon-dated and revealed to be a medieval/early Renaissance fake. (In fact, even without the carbon dating, the evidence of one's own eyes reveals that the Shroud is a fake - see Box). So, there we were, always fascinated by the Shroud, but now, as a fake, it was another kind of mystery - who on earth could have created this extraordinary image, over five hundred years ago?.
• Indeed, the Shroud possessed such strange characteristics that a small (and increasingly frantic) group of fervent believers - the 'Shroudies' - still maintained that it must be genuine, the real winding sheet of Jesus, somehow imprinted with his own image. ... In fact, as the Shroudies are very fond of saying, the image of the Shroud 'behaves like a photograph'. But although Occam's Razor dictates that if something looks like a duck, quacks and tastes wonderful with special fried rice it it probably is a duck, it is still a long way from describing the Shroud image as being photograph-like to claiming that that's what it actually is.
• On the other hand, almost as soon as we started delving into the matter we came across repeated rumours from several directions that Leonardo da Vinci had been involved in creating the Great Turin Shroud Hoax. ...
• To cut a long and convoluted story short, we came across rumours that Leonardo had faked the Turin Shroud using a primitive photographic technique. ...
• So, with the full realisation that we were taking on, not only the Shroudies, but also the whole accepted history of art/science and technology, we started serious investigations, and also rolled up our sleeves in a series of experiments (the details can be found in our first book, Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? Bloomsbury Publishing, 1994). ...
• We became the first people ever to replicate all the so-called 'miraculous' characteristics of the Turin Shroud, in all its haunting weirdness. ...
• Then you wash the cloth to remove the extra chemicals and heat it to 'fix' the image - and ecco! you have an image of the same vagueness and the same colour as the Turin Shroud. ...
• More on the amazing mystery of the Turin Shroud in Fortean Times 110, on sale now!.
• 'Mysteries of the Shroud' by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince.

• In the "truth is stranger than fiction category" a phone call to NASA's JPL from a member of the Christ Brotherhood in New Mexico, requesting image analysis of a religious relic, has drawn two men from JPL's image processing lab into a fascinating investigation of the famous "Shroud of Turin. ...
• The controversial shroud is a 4 1/2 meter, 7. ...
• , has it that the fabric, with its brownish, stain-like shadings, is the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. ...
• Enshrined in the northern Italian city of Turin since 1578, the shroud has inspired widespread curiosity, especially since the first photographs of it taken in 1898 showed the markings to be a "negative" rather than a "positive" image. ...
• JPL's Donald Lynn and Jean Lorre were drawn into the quest for further information about the relic when the Christ Brotherhood members and representatives of a New York based Holy Shroud Guild contacted them last year. These people had learned of the NASA/JPL advanced image processing techniques, and hoped that sophisticated computer analyses might be applied to negatives and color slides of the shroud obtained in 1973. They explained that many questions about various types of marks on the shroud remained unanswered: .
• Their task was to remove as many of the extraneous markings or "artifacts" as possible in an attempt to reveal a more distinct picture of the figure on the shroud. ...
• Both men were so optimistic about the mysteries they might eventually solve if allowed to obtain better photographs, that they chose to present their work to the Holy Shroud Conference in Albuquerque last March. ...
• Their common objective was to share current studies on the relic and to prepare for greater scientific examination of the garment at an unprecedented exhibition of the shroud in Turin in 1978. ...
• The Face of Jesus? Enlargement of the face of the figure imprinted on the "Shroud of Turin" by image enhancement techniques used at NASA's JPL shows white spots, thought to be bloodstains, on hair and forehead. ...
• That exhibition could be the "moment of truth" for the shroud's authenticity, according to Anglican scholar John A. ...
• Eric Jumper of the Air Force Academy showed that the figure discernible on the shroud probably was that of a man 5' 10" tall, weighing about 175 pounds. ...
• One unusual examination by Zurich criminologist Max Frie, indicated that pollen particles found on shroud fibers are indigenous to Palestine, Turkey, France, and Turin, at dates appropriate to the alleged history of the shroud. ...
• Despite the many tests made, scientists at the conference emphasized that they still are at a loss to explain how the image got on the shroud. ...
• "To separate the various markings and determine their nature," says Lorre, "we would need to take high resolution photographs of the shroud in many colors, with adequate calibration controls to allow intercomparison between the photographs. ...

• TURIN LUCK .
• GORDON RUTTER follows a dream and visits the world's most famous Holy Relic, The Shroud of Turin.
• As I was walking to the pub it finally struck me - I'm going to see the Shroud of Turin.
• My earliest Fortean memories revolve around reading various Fortean compilation books from the local library - that and Colin Wilson's mid '70's book "The Blood and the Shroud". I remember the carbon dating results of 1988 which gave the date of construction of the Shroud as some time between 1260 and 1390, this didn't cause a problem for me - the Shroud was still an item of Fortean interest. The Shroud is an interest that has stayed with me ever since, and earlier on this year I gave a talk on it to the Fortean Times Unconvention, which included my very own life size replica of the Shroud. ...
• The year 2000 has been named Jubilee year by the Catholic Church and as part of the celebrations the Shroud was to be on display in the Cathedral at Turin. To show how rare an event this is the Shroud was only publicly displayed on 4 occasions during the twentieth century. ... A couple of weeks later I flew out to Turin with tickets for two separate viewings and high expectations.
• On Saturday morning we decided to go and look at the Cathedral itself and get our first view of the Shroud -in previous years it had been possible to see it from the main body of the Cathedral without having to go through the system of queues and displays. ... All of the windows in the Cathedral were blocked out so no light other than that which is planned can strike the Shroud, similarly all photography is banned. This leads to a darkish interior with at the end of it what appears to be a strongly illuminated Shroud. The Shroud is displayed lengthways between two sheets of bulletproof glass (this is how the Shroud is permanently stored - gone are the days of silver reliquaries). Even from 30 feet away the Shroud is impressive - the most obvious parts are the non-image regions - the damage from two fire incidents, water staining and the areas where pieces have been removed for testing. ...
• Eventually after a circuit of the Royal Palace at Turin and the associated park and gardens we reached the back of the Cathedral where we entered the largest tent yet. ... After the video a side room contained a version of the Shroud for the blind - a three-dimensional relief and a sample of similar weave cloth. ...

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