In my previous post on the Chronological Gradient, I suggested that it could be explained by an area of contamination off the ‘top right’ of the sample, on the Holland backing cloth, which had carried over to the Shroud material itself. However, a more detailed examination of the measurements and the statistics derived from them […]
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Larry Stally is the latest of a line of interpreters to discuss a supposed reference to the Shroud in St Paul’s letter to the Galatians. In The Crucified Christ Seen by the Galatians: A Literal Context for ΠΡΟΕΓΡΑΦΗ (Galatians 3.1), he discusses the first verse of chapter three, which runs: “You foolish Galatians! Who has […]
A recent paper by Pam Moon, suggesting that the ‘loros’, a sort of ceremonial stole worn by the Byzantine hierarchy, not only represented the shroud of Christ, but was specifically derived from the Shroud of Turin, recalls a shroudstory debate in which the loquacious and sporadically knowledgeable Max Patrick Hamon convinced me that a depiction […]
The very first we hear of the Shroud is in the indignant letter of Bishop Pierre d’Arcis to Pope Clement VII, written around 1390. Curiously, Geoffroy de Charny isn’t mentioned. The Dean of Lirey gets all the blame. This may be because the first public exhibition did not occur until after de Charny had died […]
Entering “radiocarbon” and “worst possible” into our favourite search engine brings up about 2000 hits. In the literature, and even more so in broadcast media, it is widely supposed that the people entrusted to select a single representative sample of the Shroud for radiocarbon dating first argued for a hour or so, and finally decided […]
The three laboratories chosen to radiocarbon date the Shroud were given samples which they cut into subsamples for dating. Oxford used three subsamples, Arizona used four and Zurich five. As we know the order in which the samples were originally placed on the cloth – Oxford nearest the end, then Zurich, then Arizona – an […]
In his controversial book about the radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (The Shroud Unmasked), David Sox, who was visiting the Zurich laboratory with the BBC Timewatch team, tells an anecdote about Professor Willy Wölfli, the head of the department. “He was also worried about the results he had with the linen tablecloth of […]
[This was published in 2020. Following an observation made in 2023,I have made a substantial new and alternative interpretation of the nail wound,which can be found at ‘The Hand Talks Back!’] Here is a photo of a hand. The palm is distinguished from the fingers in red, and the middle of the palm, where most […]
In a YouTube presentation on the Shroud of Turin delivered on 10 April 2020, the charismatic Fr Johnathan Meyer of All Saints, Guildford, Indiana enthusiastically declares:“The Shroud of Turin is 14.3 foot by 3.5 foot burial cloth. So if we look at the Shroud, its exact dimensions are 14.3 by 3.5 foot length of fabric. […]
ONE: In Hereford Museum there is a tantalising piece of rubble found while excavating for some building work in the nearby village of Canon Pyon. It is part of a Lamentation scene, and shows Jesus’s torso, his arms crossed Shroud-wise at the wrists. The museum keeps a couple of fragments of the rest of the […]