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• New Tests Possible For Shroud Of Turin .
• TURIN, Italy (CWNews. com) - The archbishop of Turin said on Monday that new tests could be carried out on the Shroud of Turin to settle lingering questions about the authenticity of the cloth from the controversial 1988 tests. ...
• The archbishop noted that many scientists at a March symposium on the shroud were divided over the carbon dating results. ...
• "Any future new tests to date the Shroud will be authorized only when the method has been clarified further," Monsignor Giuseppe Ghiberti, one of the Church's top shroud officials, said. "Otherwise, the concerns expressed by one part of the scientific world over that dating, which could be affected by the trials and tribulations of the Shroud over the centuries and in particular the heat from fires, would affect any new tests. ...
• The shroud will be on display in Turin from August 12 to October 22 as part of the Jubilee Year celebrations. ... The Vatican has not defined the Shroud as authentic but treasures and venerates it as a powerful reminder of Christ's passion.

• CSST - Council for Study of the Shroud of Turin.
• The Shroud of Turin, the purported burial cloth of Jesus.
• The Shroud has been in Turin, Italy since 1578. ...
• Also, during this time, the Shroud was intensively studied.
• with various others, combine to make the Shroud of Turin the.
• show clearly that the Shroud images are not any kind of.
• Studies on the Shroud of Turin by Dr. ...
• Shroud and the faces of early icons and other images. ...
• the Shroud face image was used extensively and accurately as.
• look, the obvious features of the Shroud are the front and.
• Shroud images to be from Israel in the spring of AD 30.
• criminalist and botanist, as being present on the Shroud.
• Some statues in the Middle East are based on the Shroud.
• showing that the Shroud image is in part an autoradiograph.
• There are many intriguing faint images on the Shroud; which,.
• the Shroud as the most amazing archaeological artifact in.

• Shroud of Turin brings Ukrainian Church leaders together:.
• On May 5th of this year, a copy of the Shroud of Turin was venerated in common by the leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Kyiv by way of an ecumenical supplicatory service or "moleben. ...
• The Shroud of Turin, far from being a Roman Catholic relic, has a much longer history in the Christian East. ...
• The Catholic crusaders were the ones who plundered many an Eastern Orthodox relic which they then brought to the West and among them was the shroud venerated in the East as one of the burial cloths in which the Body of OLGS Jesus Christ was wrapped. ...
• As a matter of fact, the Shroud of Turin is still in the possession of the descendants of the Templar Knight, Geoffroi de Chancey whose uncle, likewise a Templar, was burned at the stake with the Templar Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, and others in Paris during the persecution of the Templars in the reign of the French King Philip IV. ...
• Moreover, the shroud is believed to bear the image and likeness of the crucified Christ and has been the subject of many, well-known scientific studies as well as controversial discussion. Copies of the shroud are today venerated in a growing number of Orthodox Churches in Eastern Europe.
• Some believe that the Holy Napkin of Christ that depicts the Saviour's Head is none other than the shroud that was folded over four times and the creasing in this respect is clearly visible in the cloth itself.
• Nasty press reports from the Moscow Patriarchate or formal complaints from the Vatican about any of this can and should be treated by our Churches much in the same way as one treats swearing scribbled in chalk on the sidewalk by street youths.
• May Christ our God grant this through the prayers of His Most Holy Mother and through His Precious Shroud!.

• APOLLONIUS OF TYANA & THE SHROUD OF TURIN.
• The Naples Bust & The Turin Shroud.
• The Jesus Conspiracy : The Turin Shroud & the Truth About the Resurrection.
• Shown above are overlays in varying opacities of the Naples Bust and the Turin Shroud.
• If we assume that the life of Apollonius of Tyana, Cappadocia, was part and parcel of the composite exemplar in the Gospels for the life of "the Jesus Christ", combined together with the life of John The Baptist, cousin of "Jesus", then it automatically follows that the image on the Shroud of Turin is that of Apollonius of Tyana. But curiously, the Vatican has never acknowledged officially that the image on the Shroud is that of either "the Jesus Christ" or Apollonius Tyanaeus.
• Regarding the Shroud itself, there is an excellent book on this subject -The Jesus Conspiracy : The Turin Shroud & The Truth About The Resurrection by Holger Kersten and Elmar R. ...
• It contains an excellent synopsis of the Shroud's history.
• Thus herein, no real discussion of the Shroud itself will be undertaken, except for the dates that were involved. The Burial Shroud (previously known as "The Mandylion" or "Sindon") was taken from Jerusalem to Edessa, Assyria, in about the year 50 CE. ... Then in 1356 CE the Shroud was moved from Constantinople to France, where the Holy See was headquartered at Avignon during the 1300s. ... Finally in 1578, the Shroud was moved to Turin, Italy, where it has remained until the present day. ...
• Herein therefore, I'll be concerned with only what I know to be the marble bust of the younger Apollonius at the Museo Nazionale di Napoli, as well as the excellent Turin Shroud cover-graphic from the Kersten-Gruber English edition. Recently I began to compare the two, and compare them also to the older Apollonius bust as well as to separate pictures that I have of the Shroud of Turin. ...
• In general, a quick look at both the Naples Bust and the Turin Shroud reveals obvious similarities: the long hair, the mustache and full beard, the "dimple" lines around the mouth, the shape of the nose. ... On pages 152-53, these authors list fifteen "correspondences" (accompanied by a diagram of the face) between facial markings on the Shroud and similarities in early images of "Christ" on paintings, icons and coins. ...

• Home : News Shroud of Turin Exhibition Renews False Claims of Authenticity.
• Beginning April 18, for the first time in twenty years, the Shroud of Turin will be on display to the public in Turin, Italy. Despite well-documented forensic and historical evidence to the contrary, the announced viewing has produced renewed claims that the Shroud of Turin is the authentic burial cloth of Jesus.
• The following is a summary of the shroud debate by Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP. ) Nickell is the author of sixteen books on investigation and the paranormal including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin. During the 1980's, Nickell served on a team of scholarly and scientific experts that evaluated the shroud claims and found them to be false. ...
• The Shroud of Turin Controversy.
• For the first time in 20 years, the controversial Shroud of Turin will be placed on exhibit at its home in northern Italy. ... John the Baptist in Turin, but many claims are expected to be made for the cloth by its defenders. ...
• Historically, the Shroud of Turin is one of some forty reputed burial cloths of Jesus, although it is the only one to bear the apparent imprints and bloodstains of a crucified man. Religious critics have long noted that the Turin shroud is incompatible with the bible, which describes multiple burial wrappings, including a separate “napkin” that covered Jesus’ face (John 20:5–7).
• A fake shroud created by Joe Nickell .
• The Turin cloth first appeared in north-central France in the mid-fourteenth century. ... Subsequently, in 1389, Pope Clement VII officially declared the shroud to be only a painted “representation. ...
• Eventually the cloth was transferred to Turin. In 1983 Italy’s exiled king died, bequeathing the shroud to the Vatican.

• Home : News New "Shroud" Claims Challenged as Spurious.
• New claims concerning the Shroud of Turin, the reputed burial cloth of Jesus, are being challenged by shroud experts. ...
• The new pro-shroud claims come from a team of four scientists from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. The team claims -- based on threads allegedly taken from the shroud -- that heavy contamination from bacteria and fungi may have altered the 1988 radiocarbon dating. The implication is that the shroud might be genuine after all. ...
• A fake shroud created by Joe Nickell .
• However these findings are difficult to reconcile either with the cloth's history or with prior tests, say shroud experts. According to Joe Nickell, author of Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1988) and an investigative writer for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, "There is abundant data on which to judge the shroud a forgery even apart from the carbon dating. ...
• According to Nickell, the shroud first appeared in France in the 1350's, owned by a soldier of fortune who refused to say how he had obtained it. ...
• Finally, in 1988 samples of the shroud's linen were radiocarbon dated by three independent laboratories. ...
• The new claims of contamination imply that the shroud is much older than the fourteenth century, possibly dating even from the first century, and that it could be genuine after all. ...
• The recent study by the Texas team was conducted on a linen sample allegedly taken from the lower right corner of the shroud. However, the Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, has publicly challenged the sample's authenticity. He stated that both he and the Vatican "declare that they cannot recognize the results of the claimed experiments. ...
• Nickell points out that, even if the sample did come from the shroud, its location was far away from any alleged "blood" stains. ... "The persons involved should promptly and fully clarify the source and location of all the samples allegedly removed from the shroud. ...

• Scientist dates Shroud of Turin -- takes it to dinner and movie.
• Pierre Bonier arriving to date the Shroud.
• When French scientist Pierre Bonier requested permission from the Vatican to "date" the Shroud of Turin, church officials naturally assumed that Bonier wanted to research the age of the item they believe to be Christ's burial cloth. ...
• "He wassa da weirdo", claimed Benito Linguini, spokesman for Italy's Turin Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista, where the Shroud is kept.
• Speaking in a thick Italian accent that this reporter had trouble deciphering, Linguini was visibly upset as he described how, to his horror, the scientist showed up at the Cathedral, ready to date the Shroud. ...
• Promises me dat he'lla hava da Shroud backa by eleven. ...
• Though the exact age of the Shroud may remain a mystery because Bonier didn't actually calculate the age of the Shroud, as the Vatican expected him too, Linguini conceded that the Shroud had a good time.
• The only thing that has upset the Holy Office in Rome is that Bonier returned the Shroud with a grease stain from a "Bloomin' Onion" appetizer.
• Bonier has asked the Vatican for permission to call on the Shroud again, a request officials there are considering.
• "We can't keep it sheltered forever", conceded a Vatican insider. ...

• Turin Shroud.
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• Faking the Shroud.
• In 1357 the Turin Shroud was gifted to a small church in Lirey, France,by the local lord, Geoffrey de Charny. ...
• If the Turin Shroud is genuine, what does it tell us about Jesus and the origins of Christianity? Curiously, although many believe that it would provide vital proof of the truth of the religion, others argue that it would actually undermine some of its central tenets. ...
• Although the Shroud was endorsed as the genuine article by Popes in the 15th and 16th century, more recently the Catholic Church has been careful not to pronounce on it one way or the other, the official line being that, genuine or not, it is a fit object for meditation on Christ's Passion. The Vatican has refused to accept the results of the 1988 carbon dating. Although Pope John Paul II is known to personally believe that the Shroud is genuine, he has never said so officially.
• For most believers in the Shroud’s authenticity, the cloth and its image are a "fifth gospel" that bears witness to the New Testament accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus. The wounds suffered by the man on the Shroud are exactly those described in the Gospel accounts, which (they argue) shows that those accounts are accurate and reliable. ...
• Not only is the Shroud a souvenir of the most important moment in Jesus’s life, as it wrapped his body as it lay in the tomb and therefore at the moment of his Resurrection, but it is also stained with the blood that, according to Christian theology, he shed to save humanity from its sins.
• In 1464 the future Pope Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere) wrote the first book championing the Shroud's authenticity.
• More dramatically, some propose that the Shroud is not just proof of the crucifixion, but also of the Resurrection, the key event in Christian dogma. ...
• A totally opposite view is taken by researchers who argue that the Shroud image proves that the Resurrection never happened. ... Proponents of this view point out that the blood appears to be still flowing, showing that the man was alive when placed in the Shroud. ...
• Some adherents to this view, such as Rodney Hoare, the former Chairman of the British Society for the Turin Shroud, do not feel that this clashes with their Christian beliefs. ...

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• Hoax Alert: Shroud of Turin restored; church claims Jesus was wrapped with it.
• ======================================= FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS TURIN, Italy, Sept. 23 — Experts performed a top-secret restoration of the Shroud of Turin, removing centuries-old patches and replacing a backing that was sewn onto what some say was the burial cloth of Jesus, church officials said. They said the restoration was carried out with explicit Vatican permission, and aimed only to protect and document the artifact. --snip-- The shroud, which is kept in the Turin cathedral, is a strip of linen about 14 feet (4. ... A carbon-dating test ended in 1988 with a scientific team declaring that the shroud apparently came from medieval times. Disputes have flourished over that study and others, including one by researchers at The Hebrew University that concluded pollen and plant images on the shroud showed it originated around Jerusalem sometime before the eighth century. ...
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• "Alice In Wonderland and the Shroud of Turin".
• ALICE IN WONDERLAND - AND THE SHROUD OF TURIN?.
• As we are assembled here to celebrate Father Adam and his stupendous career in Shroud research, we better ask the same question as Alice did: "which way we ought to go from here?" Only we better not ask this question in Wonderland. It is there where lately Shroud research finds itself trapped and our answers seem to come from the Cheshire Cat.
• Even very recently we have seen the argument presented on television and in papers, here, in Italy and elsewhere, that the Shroud cannot be a painting, because its image disintegrates into what is almost invisibility at close range and into a fairly well defined image from a distance The artist I quote would have needed a 15 feet long brush to paint the Shroud. If we repeat this argument too many more times we have proven that the Shroud is a painting, because the argument comes from people who don't know how a large painting is done.
• A 480 square foot painting in the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, which I painted when I was 14 years old and which I visited this May. ...
• The Shroud has two life-size figures on it.
• From a distance, however, the image of the Eucharist Christ, the Angel crying out the glory of the eucharist, the Angel inviting and a symbolic figure - the hand holding grapes gather themselves into a definitive image, exactly as the Shroud does. The Shroud is not a painting, not because it becomes a well defined image only from a distance, and the artist would have needed a 15 feet long brush to paint it. ... The task to prove whether the Shroud is or is not a painting belongs to the expertise of the practiced monumental arts. ...
• When Shroud research finds itself in Wonderland, not only the borders of professional expertise were crossed, but the borders of a specific cultural milieu and its forbidding event horizon. ...
• IS THE SHROUD A PRIMITIVE PHOTOGRAPH MADE BY LEONARDO DA VINCI?.
• Very recently, a program appeared on television suggesting that the Turin Shroud was made by Leonardo da Vinci, who just to produce the Shroud, (LEFT) invented a primitive form of photography in the 15th century, three and a half centuries before the French made the first photograph in a camera in 1826. ... For starters, the first recorded exhibition of the Shroud in Lirey France was in 1356. ...
• Besides, he who wrote down in reverse every penny he spent, everything he ever invented, never wrote one word about the Turin Shroud. ... Leonardo creating the Shroud of Turin, which defies time with its uncanny permanence? I do not think so.

• Shroud of Turin Topics.
• I think the the truth about the Shroud of Turin is somewhere between the prima facie case that is a medieval fake relic and the ebullient claims of some who stretch science to argue that the images were miraculously induced and thus evidence of the Resurrection. ...
• Once a skeptic about the Shroud, I now think it is an authentic artifact of the burial of Jesus of Nazarethâ ”and therefore the earliest historical document we have about the day that he was crucified. ...
• Iâ ™m not sure what to make of the Shroud after many years of active study about it. I welcome your thoughts on the Shroud. ...
• Plant Images and Pollen Grains on the Shroud .
• Why We May Believe the Shroud is Not Medieval .
• Why We May Think the Shroud is Medieval .
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• Why We May Believe the Shroud is Not Medieval.
• But there is now credible evidence that the samples cut from the Shroud and provided to the laboratories were contaminated. ...
• According to Rogers, â œ newer threads were colored for a purpose using technology that was not used in Italy before the 13th Century or in France before the 16th Century, about the time the time the Shroud was moved to Turin from France. ...
• In a new and very decisive paper on the subject, â œScientific Method Applied to the Shroud Of Turin: A Review,â � Raymond N. ...
• Rogers and Arnoldi: The combined evidence from chemistry, cotton content, technology, photography, and residual lignin proves that the material of the main part of the Shroud is significantly different from the radiocarbon sampling area. ...
• H Smith, while examining threads from the Shroud, at the Oxford Laboratory, found similar indication of contamination. An article entitled â œRogue Fibers Found in Shroud,â � published in Textile Horizons in 1988, Smith speaks of his discovery of â œa fine dark yellow strand of cotton possibly of Egyptian origin, and quite old. ...

• Faces Based on The Shroud of Turin.
• Faces Based on The Shroud of Turin.
• , a forensic pathologist, estimates the man pictured on the Shroud was about 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighed about 178 pounds. Professor Lorenzo Ferri, who spent decades studying the Shroud, and created, with special permission of the Vatican, a full size statue of the Shroud, held that the man of the Shroud was 6'1" to 6'2". The man of the shroud also had recognizable semitic features, including a forked beard, sidelocks and a unplaited ponytail.
• For more information concerning the physical characteristics of the man pictured on the Shroud of Turin, see "How tall is the man in the image on the Shroud of Turin?" on the Shroud of Turin Website.

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• The Shroud Of Turin: God's Love Letter To Us In Linen.
• The Shroud of Turin is in Turin. ... John the Baptist, Turin, Italy, only once. ...
• You have the best exhibit of Shroud material the world has ever seen. ...
• "It's amazing," says Father Kim Dreisbach, a leading force in Shroud study. ...
• They all look at the photos -- 150 of them -- the statements of the scientists, the results of the research and the impressive replica of the Shroud and are then ready to hear more about claims of so many like Father Kim Dreisbach. This piece of linen cloth, back there in Turin, is the binder that covered the dead body of Jesus of Nazareth after His crucifixion. Father Dreisbach, who is pastor of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Atlanta, likes to tag the Shroud in this way. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is a piece of herringbone linen 14 feet long. ...
• How did the image get onto the linen cloth at Turin? A bevy of genuine experts -- many of them relishing the job of disproving the claims of the Church -- along with their modern magical beam machines have gone in with the blessings of the Church and have come away stymied or as faithful believers. ...
• The Shroud image is perfect. ...
• So how did the image get onto the Shroud? Modern science has no answer. ...
• "Questions about the Shroud," says Father Dreisbach, “really took off in 1898 when an Italian named Segundo Pia photographed it for the first time. ... He saw the image of the Shroud. This means that the image on the Turin linen Shroud is a negative. ...

• The Shroud of Turin .
• What is the Shroud of Turin? We are told that it is the burial cloth of Christ. ... The imprint of the man enclosed was stained upon it by an unknown force, as if it had been scorched by light and great heat, and the image appeared on the Shroud head, front and back attached, leaving a perfect reproduction of the body on the linen.
• The Shroud consequently is considered to be one of the holiest relics in all christendom because the image on the cloth is believed to be that of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, the Son of God, and it gives a perfect record of His suffering and death for our remembrance. ...
• The importance of the Shroud to both eastern and western christendom is obvious. ... But the history of the Shroud is fascinating and many are unaware that the trail has not grown cold but goes back all the way to the origin of the Holy Relic and the Tomb itself. ... So in order to protect the faithful, the apostles had a cloth cover made for it, which had a hole in the front panel, so that the face of Christ could show through if the Shroud were folded up into three or four folds. ...
• Over the compartment door was placed an exact replica of the Shroud painted as an icon on the door of the cupboard. ...
• It remained in their possession entrusted to one family which would later release it in another form as the Shroud. ... But the Templars were accused of heresy by King Philip the Fair of France, who sought revenge on the Templars by siding with the Pope Boniface in a dispute with the Vatican. ... (But we know now that the Vatican actions also were the result of a petition received from Ethipia against the Templar Knights over the possible theft of the Ark of the Covenant which was in the safekeeping of that country. ... The revenues which were normally sent from France to the Vatican therefore were stopped, and so this great revolt over money and power, wherein the Pope himself was kidnapped to Avignon, France and not allowed to leave became known in Church History as the Babylonian Captivity. ...
• When the Knights were condemned, the Shroud since it was the holiest of all relics in their possession, needed to be guarded and protected, so de Charney took it home to his castle. ... One of the proofs of authenticity which is used in the Shroud argument is that the image on the Shroud and the icons of Christ was an image of Zeus which had been in one of the pagan temples of the empire. But all icons of Christ show a fold of cloth at the neck of the garment, which is reproced exactly on the Shroud distorted by the connection between the face and the neck as if the cloth held a wrinkle when it was exposed to the great light, leaving a shdow of a fold. ... No Zeus image has ever been found which has a neck defect such as is evident in the Shroud or the icons of Christ which were painted afterwards. ... This was quite common in church piety, so it would account for blobs of paint appearing in the cloth of the original Shroud. ... The Mandylion had been hidden away at Lissey and later when the depredations against the Templars had ended, the family opened up the Shroud and offered to sell it, but it eventually was given into the hands of the Church by the buyer. ...

• The Shroud of Turin.
• What is the Shroud of Turin? We are told that it is the burial cloth of Christ. ... The imprint of the man enclosed was stained upon it by an unknown force, as if it had been scorched by light and great heat, and the image appeared on the Shroud head, front and back attached, leaving a perfect reproduction of the body on the linen.
• The Shroud consequently is considered to be one of the holiest relics in all Christendom because the image on the cloth is believed to be that of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, the Son of God, and it gives a perfect record of His suffering and death for our remembrance. ...
• The importance of the Shroud to both eastern and western Christendom is obvious. ... But the history of the Shroud is fascinating and many are unaware that the trail has not grown cold but goes back all the way to the origin of the Holy Relic and the Tomb itself. ... So in order to protect the faithful, the apostles had a cloth cover made for it, which had a hole in the front panel, so that the face of Christ could show through if the Shroud were folded up into three or four folds. ...
• Over the compartment door was placed an exact replica of the Shroud painted as an icon on the door of the cupboard. ...
• It remained in their possession entrusted to one family which would later release it in another form as the Shroud. ... But the Templars were accused of heresy by King Philip the Fair of France, who sought revenge on the Templars by siding with the Pope Boniface in a dispute with the Vatican. ... (But we know now that the Vatican actions also were the result of a petition received from Ethipia against the Templar Knights over the possible theft of the Ark of the Covenant which was in the safekeeping of that country. ... The revenues which were normally sent from France to the Vatican therefore were stopped, and so this great revolt over money and power, wherein the Pope himself was kidnapped to Avignon, France and not allowed to leave became known in Church History as the Babylonian Captivity. ...
• When the Knights were condemned, the Shroud since it was the holiest of all relics in their possession, needed to be guarded and protected, so de Charney took it home to his castle. ... One of the proofs of authenticity which is used in the Shroud argument is that the image on the Shroud and the icons of Christ was an image of Zeus which had been in one of the pagan temples of the empire. But all icons of Christ show a fold of cloth at the neck of the garment, which is reproced exactly on the Shroud distorted by the connection between the face and the neck as if the cloth held a wrinkle when it was exposed to the great light, leaving a shadow of a fold. ... No Zeus image has ever been found which has a neck defect such as is evident in the Shroud or the icons of Christ which were painted afterwards. ... This was quite common in church piety, so it would account for blobs of paint appearing in the cloth of the original Shroud. ... The Mandylion had been hidden away at Lissey and later when the depredations against the Templars had ended, the family opened up the Shroud and offered to sell it, but it eventually was given into the hands of the Church by the buyer. ...

• 2918 - Jesus and the Shroud of Turin .
• This video examine's skepticism over the shroud's authenticity, debunking scientists who recently claimed that it could be no more than 600 years old. ... On the Friday of the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus prepared the body of Jesus for burial in the garden tomb, first rubbing the body with aloe and myrrh, then wrapping it in the large burial shroud. ... Peter and John rushed to the tomb and saw only the shroud lying on the stone slab. From that time the shroud began its long journey around the Mediterranean to Turin, Italy, where it has drawn millions of pilgrims for centuries. ...
• 2918 - Jesus and the Shroud of Turin.
• 2918 - Jesus and the Shroud of Turin.
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• From time to time, news about the Shroud appears on some major world news websites. ...
• A Piece of Faith and History  (with sidebar on the Shroud and Science), ABC News - Science, Aug 12, 2000.
• Vatican Says New Tests Possible on Turin Shroud,  ABC News - Science, May 23, 2000 .
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• THE TURIN SHROUD .
•      The Turin shroud was the result of a misunderstanding, where an American gentleman in 1935 was being taken the pee out of by a couple of friends, an Englishman and an Egyptian, who worked for the Cairo Museum of antiquities in Barnsley. ...
• They made the Turin Shroud out of liner cloth and cough medicine and sold it to him the following day, for three thousand dollars and gave him a receipt from the Vatican. ...
• The cloth was the centrepiece in the new Hollywood Shroud Museum and religious types, from all over America were visiting. ...
• THE TURIN SHROUD .

• This ecumenically based thriller explores a fictional plot instigated by Vatican Cardinals to clone Christ from the blood on the Shroud of Turin. ...
• Parousia weaves a complex plot of frightening magnitude instigated by a covert group of six Vatican Cardinals in Rome. ...
• In exchange for the support of the Cartel, Michael accepts his mission to clone the blood left behind on the Shroud of Turin, the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. ... In their self-righteous quest to prove the authenticity of the Shroud and document the existence of Christ, the Cardinals' motives become tainted. ...

• FRAGMENT OF CROSS HELD BY VATICAN.
• A new book published in Britain argues a fragment of Jesus' cross held by the Vatican could not be a clever medieval forgery like the Shroud of Turin. ...
• A portion of the Titulus, the placard placed on the cross that mockingly declared Jesus the King of the Jews, has long been safeguarded from academic scrutiny by the Vatican. ...
• Craftsmen restoring the church discovered it in 1492, but the Vatican has long kept it away from prying scholars. ...
• The pair conducted their analysis of the Titulus without the use of Carbon-14, the technique that in 1988 revealed that the Shroud of Turin -- long believed to be Jesus' burial shroud -- dated only to the 14th century. ...

• SI DIGEST / Shroud Letter-Writing Campaign.
• Yesterday, I sent out an NHNE News Update concerning some behind-the-scenes correspondence between myself, Barrie Schwortz and the editors of SI DIGEST, the online newsletter of the COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL (CSICOP), concerning the Shroud of Turin. Essentially, the editors of SI DIGEST ran a story on the Shroud that declared the enigmatic burial cloth "perhaps the world's most notorious religious hoax. " I sent the editors a copy of yesterday's Shroud Update, which systematically challenged these views, and included this message:.
• If, on the other hand, you continue to believe that the views presented by Nickell's are scientifically sound and fairly presented, then I hope you will at least let your readers know that there are other Shroud authorities, many of whom are professional scientists who have studied the Shroud in person, that take strong exception to Mr. ...
• How did the editors of SI DIGEST respond to this plea for fair, impartial, and rigorously-professional coverage of the Shroud of Turin controversy? Instead of retracting their original story, answering the objections raised by Schwortz (who maintains the world's most comprehensive, well-connected, and authoritative source for information concerning all aspects of Shroud research), or acknowledging that many worldclass scientists feel the Shroud is authentic, the editors of SI DIGEST chose instead to republish Nickell's original comments, backed up by new ones in their newest issue of SI DIGEST -- just out today (included below). ...
• com, phone:716-636-1425) and respectfully request that along with presenting their own opinions concerning the Shroud, that they also include the opinions of other highly-regarded Shroud experts. I also encourage all of you to forward copies of the Shroud Update I sent out yesterday to everyone you think might be interested -- and let them know about this controversy. ...
• Also, while some of the other topics covered in the following SI DIGEST probably deserve to be treated with the same kind of fairness, open-mindedness, and respect we are seeking for the Shroud, I encourage those of you who decide to write to keep your comments focused on the Shroud, which is backed up by decades of serious scientific research and can't be as easily dismissed as other controversial subjects.
• -- MEDIA ALERT: Shroud of Turin.
• Shroud of Turin.
• Perhaps the world's most notorious religious hoax is the purported Holy Shroud of Jesus, now kept in a cathedral in Turin, Italy. ... The "shroud" had been part of a phoney faith-healing scheme to bilk credulous pilgrims. Stories of the shroud's authenticity are sure to resurface this spring at the 1998 Shroud Exposition in Turin where the "relic" will be on display to the public for the first time in twenty years.
• ***COUNCIL FOR MEDIA INTEGRITY ALERT: SHROUD OF TURIN***.
• SHROUD OF TURIN EXHIBITION RENEWS FALSE CLAIMS OF AUTHENTICITY.

•    Shroud of Turin .
• A negative rendering of the shroud. ...
• The Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth with the image of an apparently crucified man. ...
• The shroud is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin.
• 6 The age of the Shroud.
• Reports of Jesus's burial shroud have been circulating since the early Middle Ages, but none have been substantiated, nor can any of the objects be identified as the modern Shroud of Turin.
• Other documents from the 6th century - it is said - are in the Vatican Library and the University of Leiden, Netherlands. ...
• The first documented appearance of the cloth now stored in Turin was in 1357, when the widow of French knight Geoffroy de Charny had it displayed in a church in Lirey. Both coats of arms are to be seen in a pilgrim medallion (Museum Cluny, Paris) which shows accurately the Shroud of Turin.
• During these years, the Shroud was publicly exposed, even if not continuously, given that the bishop of Troyes prohibited this cult. ... But in the following month, antipope Clement VII prescribed indulgences for those who celebrated the Shroud, and the cult continued.
• In 1418, Humbert of Villersexel, Count de la Roche, Lord of Saint-Hippolyte-sur-Doubs, who had married the grand-daughter of Geoffroy de Charny, moved the Shroud to his castle at Montfort, officially to protect it from criminal bands.
• She travelled with the Shroud, for several expositions (like in Liege and in Geneva).
• In 1471 the Shroud was moved to Vercelli, and in the following years it was in Turin, Ivrea, Susa, Chambery, Avigliano, Rivoli, and Pinerolo. ...
• The folded shroud was damaged by a drop of molten silver from the reliquary it was stored in, and by water used to douse the fire. ...
• The shroud was moved in 1578 to Turin, where it remains today. ...

• Shroud of Turin Debate.
• Is the Shroud of Turin the burial cloth of Jesus?  .
• Is the Shroud of Turin real?.
• Books on the Shroud of Turin.
• The shroud of Turin is a woven cloth about 14 feet long and 3. ... The image is believed by many to be the image of Jesus of Nazareth and the shroud is believed to be his burial shroud. ... The shroud is kept in the cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.
• Historically, the Shroud of Turin is one of some forty reputed burial cloths of Jesus, although it is the only one to bear the apparent imprints and bloodstains of a crucified man. Religious critics have long noted that the Turin shroud is incompatible with the bible, which describes multiple burial wrappings, including a separate “napkin” that covered Jesus’ face (John 20:5-7). The Turin cloth first appeared in north-central France in the mid-fourteenth century. ... Subsequently, in 1389, Pope Clement VII officially declared the shroud to be only a painted “representation. ... Eventually the cloth was transferred to Turin. In 1983 Italy’s exiled king died, bequeathing the shroud to the Vatican.
• The Shroud of Turin is much older than some scientists believe, according to researchers who used pollen and plant images to conclude it dates from Jerusalem before the eighth century. The study contradicts a 1988 examination by scientists who said the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390. ``We have identified by images and by pollen grains species on the shroud restricted to the vicinity of Jerusalem,'' botany professor Avinoam Danin of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem said  during the International Botanical Congress. ...

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