I have a lot of respect for Giulio Fanti. He has been working at minute traces from the Shroud, some from Ray Rogers’s sticky tapes and some from the hooverings of Giovanni Riggi between the Shroud and its backing cloth, for many years, and has published his findings in numerous papers and a couple of […]
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[IMPORTANT APPENDIX. Although Teddi Pappas was not singled out as particularly responsible for the ‘Facts’ about the Shroud mentioned on the ‘Sign From God’ website, she was among the Directors, and, as such, as I said below, “ought to be responsible for the content published under their names.” With this in mind, she has re-examined […]
In a recent podcast,1 Dale Glover asked Kenneth Stevenson (ex-STuRP) and Brian Donley Worrell to review my recent experiments. Both are quite prominent in the authenticist field, and might perhaps have presented valid challenges to them, but disappointingly neither of them appeared to have listened to the podcast in which I discussed my experiments or […]
I’ve been brought up short a couple of times recently in discovering areas of Shroud research that have been around for a while but are completely new to me. One of these is the website of Marco Corvaglia (https://www.marcocorvaglia.com/en), called ‘Miracles and Historical Criticism,’ whose main focus seems to be the Marian apparitions at Medjugorge, […]
Ah, the £64,000 dollar question. According to Pierre d’Arcis, the Shroud was a “pannum artificiose depictum […] in quo subtili modo depicta erat duplex effigies unius hominis” (“a cloth skillfully illustrated on which rather subtly are depicted double images of one man”),1 while Cornelius Zantfleit called it a “linteum, in quo egregie miro artificio depicta […]
Most often, a nut. [This post was written after Part 1 of Jones’s new series (see below), with Parts 2, 3 and 4 – or more – to follow. I don’t intend to wait for them as a) they may never happen, b) they may extend exponentially into the future, and c) I doubt if […]
From Hagrid to Hermione, or R2D2 to Jabba the Hutt, the Movie Franchises of the world are crammed with dozens of very different characters, and the internet is buzzing with quizzes to help you discover which of them fits your personality best. From without and within the world of Sindonology, it is sometimes assumed that […]
A Review of‘Beyond Imagination, Evidence of Rigor Mortis and Cadaveric Spasm on the Shroud of Turin,’by Theodora Pappas,Medical & Clinical Case Reports Journal, URF Publishers, 2024 [Nobody should read this article without also reading Teddi Pappas’s responses, below.I think they deny rather than refute what I have written,but they re-present and amplify the alternative view.] […]
A review of ‘Folding Patterns of the Shroud of Turin,’ by Pam Moon, academia.edu, January 2025 The various marks left by adventitious damage to the Shroud demonstrate at least three different ways in which the Shroud has been folded, and throughout most of the twentieth century it has been rolled up. In her paper, Pam […]
John Loken has been active in the Shroud field for two decades, and recently a reviewer of this blog, as a believer in the Shroud’s authenticity and in a natural, not supernatural, formation of the image on it. The world of sindonology is far more nuanced than a cursory review might suppose. Not all Christians […]