On Sunday 23 November 2025, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a worldwide sect of Islam some twenty million strong, opened its first purpose-built mosque in Wales, at a ceremony to which I had the honour of being invited, in connection with my research into the Shroud. I also […]
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[Viewer discretion advised! In the comments below, John Loken has mentioned, quite correctly, that bloodstained fabrics of all kind bear witness to the fact that of course blood transfers from a body to cloth, and Teddi Pappas has sent me a couple of illustrations of a wound dressing, and the associated wound. Both comments are […]
Over the long weekend of 30 July – 3 August, the Shroud Educational Endeavors Corporation presented an extremely comprehensive survey of the current state of Shroud research to date at the Augustine Institute, St Louis, Missouri, “drawing more than 425 attendees and featuring 85 presentations from 49 global experts representing 10 countries,”1 presenting in 3 […]
I had been looking forward to this. Jack Markwardt is usually as thorough a researcher as one could wish to find, and his history of the Shroud before Lirey has been comprehensive and meticulously researched. Needless to say, I have been reviewing his presentations with equal rigour, and do not come to the same conclusions, […]
On 5 September 2025 Jack Markwardt and I met head to head on one of Dale Glover’s podcasts,1 on the significance of the re-discovery of that interesting passage in one of Nicole Oresme’s treatises, concerning the fraudulent clerics of Lirey. The tenor of the podcast was that I thought the passage was confirmation of Pierre […]
In a well-structured assessment of the Scientific Method, Otangelo Grasso (ably assisted by ChatGPT or one of its peers) has analysed my experiments with yellow ochre tempera, and the words of the title above occur no less than fifteen times in his review. Unfortunately, as we shall see, the review is really only a well […]
“Until someone replicates an artefact, with all of its characteristics,then however ardently they may claim it to be by the hand of man,their very incompetence demonstrates the likelihood that it is the work of God.” Various attempts have been made to reproduce the method by which the Shroud image was made, in the face of […]
A Review of‘A New Document on the Appearance of the Shroud of Turin from Nicole Oresme: Fighting False Relics and False Rumours in the 14th Century,’by Nicolas Sarzeaud, published in the Journal of Medieval History, 28 August 2025 I love a pithy title, don’t you? A lot of historical research is pretty unrewarding. You set […]
With thanks to Andrea Nicolotti, historian and friend. A manuscript from around 1375, some years before the Shroud resurfaced after being hidden for ‘about 34 years,’ or any of the episcopal or papal correspondence regarding the second series of expositions, has been discovered, which confirms the information that the Shroud was well known as a […]
(but beginning with… USS Hugh M Farey If any of my readers also follow Dale Glover’s podcasts on the Shroud, you will know that he has come to refer to me almost exclusively as Ultimate Shroud Skeptic Hugh Farey. It has become one of his catch-phrases, like “peer reviewed secular scientific journal,” “world renowned expert,” […]