A recent paper published in World Scientific News 1 observes that Shroud blood contains significantly less nitrogen than ordinary blood, and that a possible explanation for this is that neutron radiation created during the Resurrection of Christ converted the nitrogen into carbon-14, thereby coincidentally distorting the medieval date discovered in 1988. To find out whether […]
I’ve been alerted to three short papers published at academia.edu, on the subject of the invincibility of Ray Rogers’s Thermochimica Acta paper (which was coincidentally the subject of my last post), by a Polish sindonologist who goes by the initials O.K. He has a website called Apologetyka (apologetyka.info), and I think I know his identity, […]
I’m sorry that we never met, and that, since your passing in 2005, we won’t be going to, in this world at least. Nevertheless, since I have been studying your paper in Thermochimica Acta on the Shroud of Turin and found it a little confusing, I hope you won’t mind my publicising some of my […]
The moment the eminent scientific journal Nature published ‘Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin’ on 16 February 1989, strenuous efforts began in order to discredit it. The protocol adopted, the selection of the sample site, the size and number of the sub-samples and the personal character of those involved have all been criticised, sometimes […]
This image is from Folio 210V of the Madrid Skylitzes, a manuscript of the “Synopsis of Histories” by John Skylitzes, copied in the twelfth century and currently in the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. It illustrates a short story whose words appear immediately above and below it: αὐχμοῦ δὲ γενομένου, ὡς ἐπὶ μῆνας ὅλους […]
On the night of 4 December 1532, the Chapel at Chambéry caught fire, and the reliquary containing the Shroud was badly damaged. According to Filiberto Pingonio, who was a senior cleric at the Chapel at the time, and may have been an eye-witness, four men rescued the reliquary, but not before the precious relic within […]
INCEPTIONMuch of what we know about the material composition of the Shroud and its markings is derived from the investigation held between 2 and 9 October 1978 by the Shroud of Turin Research Project (originally STRP, then usually STURP, now more commonly STuRP, occasionally, and erroneously, S.T.U.R.P.). This was a loose association of between thirty […]
Item, a playne aulter cloth’ Mked wt sylke, in the Middis or lorde beyng in the sepulcre, in lenth’e iiij elles & qt. The item above is listed in an incomplete inventory dated about 1523, from the Church of St Mary at Hill. It was published among a group of medieval inventories of the church, under […]
A review ofA Catholic Scientist Champions the Shroud of TurinBy Gerard Verschuurenpublished by the Sophia Institute Press, New Hampshire Gerard Verschuuren is a card-carrying biologist specialising in genetics, and must have a fine, practical working knowledge of scientific method. However, since the turn of the century he has concentrated on books linking Science with his […]
Much exaggeration has been written about the ‘dirt’ allegedly found on the feet, knees and nose of the image on the cloth, derived from no more than a grain of rock found on a single sticky tape sample taken by Ray Rogers in 1978. According to John Heller (Report on the Shroud of Turin), for […]