The previous two posts have been a more or less blow by blow account of the ‘final’ Conference of the original Shroud of Turin Research Project team, over the weekend of 9-11 October 1981, tapes of which have been made available to us by the kind and painstaking work of Barrie Schwortz and the Shroud […]
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[n.b.. All the recordings can be found at shroud.com (https://www.shroud.com/81conf.htm), the essential compendium of everything related to the Shroud, founded and maintained by Barrie Schwortz since before the birth of Google!] SUNDAY MORNING Sunday began with an explanation of the X-ray fluorescence spectra, by Larry Schwalbe. His diagrams seem to be those published in Morris, […]
As I mentioned briefly in my last post, we have been extremely fortunate recently in the publication of nine hours of tape-recordings of the ‘Final’ conference of the STuRP team, kept for 40 years by Rudy Dichtl, and presented to STERA (the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association) for digitisation and upload. All the […]
Since I wrote this, I have been grateful for some comments from Bill Meacham, who was mentioned in Dale’s interview, and, as a consequence, by myself below. Unfortunately they arrived too late to be posted in the discussion section – at the time WordPress closed comments after three days – so I have incorporated them […]
…the good is oft interred with their bones. (Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II) On 16 November 1955, eight-year-old Janice May was found, raped and beaten, on a railway line in her hometown of Canton, Illinois. She died an hour later. After two days a taxi driver, Lloyd Miller, was arrested and subsequently tried, found […]
One of the problems we have in understanding the image on the Shroud is that the better the photograph, the more the vagaries of the cloth interfere with the image itself. Attempts to “remove the weave” have been more or less successful, but invariably involve an element of subjectivity that cannot be verified for accuracy. […]
[ADDENDUM: Since this article was first published, Michael Kowalski has kindly made some significant corrections, for which I am very grateful. They concern the dates when critics of the radiocarbon results first raised their objections, and a numerical error on my part which I certainly shouldn’t have made. I could have made these corrections invisibly, […]
THE SHROUD OF JESUS: AND THE SIGN JOHN INGENIOUSLY CONCEALEDby Gilbert Lavoie, MD, published by the Sophia Institute Press, 2023. Gilbert Lavoie is a practising medical physician whose association with the Shroud goes back to 1978 and the STuRP investigation, some of whose lead scientists he knows well. However he has very much ploughed his […]
A recent update at academia.edu details Joe Marino’s latest research into his “invisible mending” hypothesis. ‘Further Empirical Data Indicating Repairs in the C-14 Sample Area of the Shroud of Turin,’ drags in the Bayeux Tapestry, Roman tunics, and Medieval tapestries, Joe’s pet peeves (that everybody who disagrees with him is either a lunatic or a […]
For many years, students of the Shroud have been using a group of microphotographs included in the “Image Library” of the website shroud.com, taken from the “Mark Evans Collection,” and individually labelled “ME-02” to “ME-32,” although not consecutively, as not all the micrographs are included. Twenty-four of them can be seen on sindonology.com. There is […]