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• World Conspiracy Web Site: Shroud Exposed!!.
• For centuries mankind has sought to understand just what the mysterious Shroud of Turin is. ...
• The identity of the man may be a Crusader, crucified in mockery of his faith; some assert the image is that of the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, who died around the same time as carbon dating says the Shroud was created. ...
• There is possibly actual ancient blood on the Shroud, with 400 base pairs of its DNA identified at this time. ...
• When the Shroud is photographed a faint image is seen, as in the photo directly above. When the negative is observed, the image at the top of this page is seen, showing that the Shroud is something of a negative itself. A great amount of detail can be seen in the Shroud's negative, including whip marks, head wounds as if from a "crown of thorns," blood stains, wrist and ankle wounds, and a wound to the side, all of which are consistent with the Biblical account of the Crucifixion, except for the wrist wounds, which are actually anatomically correct since nails through the hands could not support the weight of a human body. ...
• Could the Shroud actually be the burial cloth of Jesus, or is it a hoax? Our own Boris the Terrible has completed his own study, commisioned by Pope John Paul II himself. ...
• Check out the Pope's letter to Boris.
• Check out Boris' Investigation of the Shroud.
• The Templars and the Shroud.
• Holy Shroud Guild.
• Shroud of Turin Website.
• Shroud of Lirey-Chambery-Turin.

• POPE SALUTES SHROUD AS EXPOSITION OPENS .
• At his Sunday Angelus audience, Pope John Paul II called attention to the Shroud of Turin, which is being exposed for public viewing during the Jubilee year.
•     Speaking at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, to a youthful crowd dominated by pilgrims arriving in Rome for World Youth Day, the Holy Father said that he had been profoundly moved by each of his three personal encounters the Shroud.
•     The Pope first saw the Shroud on a visit to Turin in 1978, just weeks before his election to Peter's throne. He has visited the Turin cathedral during public expositions of the Shroud in 1980 and again in 1998. ...
• "Through the Man of the Shroud, the infinite love of God speaks to the heart of every man. ...
•     The Shroud has been made available for public viewing this year just before the opening of World Youth Day activities, and the Pontiff observed that many young pilgrims are passing through Turin as an "introduction" to the week's observances.

• THE SHROUD OF TURIN .
• August Accetta, Director and founder of the Shroud Center of Southern California takes you on this fascinating and spellbinding journey. ... Accetta is the Director of Research for the shroud in Nuclear Image formation and blood clot analysis. This monumental tape series explores the scientific investigations currently ongoing into what Pope John Paul II has called, "the greatest relic of all Christendom", the Shroud of Turin. ... Accetta gives a riveting overview and history of the Shroud. He presents the most up to date scientific information available today and describes in mesmerizing detail the "hows" and "whys" of the Roman scourging and crucifixion as well as the Jewish practices and beliefs relative to the shroud. He concludes this already electrifying series with what he calls "The Liturgy of the Shroud". He shows how the Last Supper, the Eucharist, the Passover and the Passover Lamb are all tied together and wrapped up in this miraculous cloth known as "The Shroud of Turin". ... Accetta himself returned to the Catholic Faith as a result of his scientific study of the Shroud. ...

• THE SHROUD OF TURIN .
• The Shroud of Turin – a linen cloth 14 feet 3 inches long and 3 feet seven inches wide that bears the superficial imprint of the body of a man – is an object of fascination. ... In 1988, the Shroud was opened to the public for a period of some 50 days. ... So, what is the truth about the Shroud? Is it genuine or is it a fraud? The facts will help us to decide. ...
• The first record of the Shroud dates to 544 C. ... In 944 the Shroud was recorded as being in Constantinople. Whether or not this is the same piece of cloth that is now held in the San Giovanni Battista in Turin is a matter of debate. ...
• The next documented record of the Shroud takes us to 15th Century France. ... In 1578, it was taken by Emmanuel Philibert to Turin where it has remained ever since. ...
• In 1988, the Shroud was subjected to radiocarbon dating to determine its age. ... In an official statement, the archbishop of Turin, stated, "In entrusting the evaluation of these results to science, the church reiterates its respect and veneration for this venerable icon of Christ, which remains an object of veneration for the faithful. ...
• Despite the clear scientific evidence disproving the authenticity of the Shroud, Church authorities continue to declare it as legitimate. On May 24, 1998, for instance, pope John Paul 11 said that the Shroud was “the imprint left by the tortured body of the Crucified One. ...

• Catholic Treasures THE SHROUD OF TURIN .
• August Accetta, Director and founder of the Shroud Center of Southern California takes you on this fascinating and spellbinding journey. ... Accetta is the Director of Research for the shroud in Nuclear Image formation and blood clot analysis. This monumental tape series explores the scientific investigations currently ongoing into what Pope John Paul II has called, "the greatest relic of all Christendom", the Shroud of Turin. ... Accetta gives a riveting overview and history of the Shroud. He presents the most up to date scientific information available today and describes in mesmerizing detail the "hows" and "whys" of the Roman scourging and crucifixion as well as the Jewish practices and beliefs relative to the shroud. He concludes this already electrifying series with what he calls "The Liturgy of the Shroud". He shows how the Last Supper, the Eucharist, the Passover and the Passover Lamb are all tied together and wrapped up in this miraculous cloth known as "The Shroud of Turin". ... Accetta himself returned to the Catholic Faith as a result of his scientific study of the Shroud. ...

• Pope urges science to probe Turin Shroud .
• TURIN -- Calling the Shroud of Turin a challenge to intelligence, Pope John Paul II yesterday encouraged scientists to keep testing the mysterious linen many believe wrapped the body of the crucified Christ. ...
• Following the footsteps of more than a million pilgrims who have seen the cloth since it went on display last month, Pope John Paul paused before the linen enveloped in a bulletproof case in what he called "mysterious fascination". ...
• The Pope last saw the shroud in a private viewing in 1978, the first year of his papacy. Yesterday, he became the longest-serving pope of this century, surpassing the 19 years, seven months and seven days of Pius XII, who died in 1958. ...
• In 1988, scientists tested scraps of the shroud with Vatican approval and concluded it dated back to between 1260 and 1390. ...
• "The shroud is a challenge to intelligence," Pope John Paul said. ...
• It entrusts to scientists the tasks of continuing to investigate, to reach adequate answers to the questions connected to this shroud, which, according to tradition, supposedly wrapped the body of Christ. ...
• He went on to say that "the church urges approaching the study of the shroud without preconceived positions, which could take for granted results that aren't what they seem". ...

• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE TURIN SHROUD NEWSLETTER NO: 48 - December 1998.
• HOST: Shroud of Turin Website.
• The last Newsletter appeared slightly earlier than its due date, in order to apprise members of the latest news from Turin at the time of the Expositions. ...
• On his visit to Turin earlier this year Pope John Paul II made probably the longest, most percipient and supportive comments on the Shroud of any Pope in history.   In the wake of these the Vatican has announced the actual dates of the Year 2000 Shroud Expositions. ...
• In the US, where there has tended to be a lack of cohesion and co-operation between the country’s several Shroud organisations, a most unifying meeting was held in Dallas on the weekend of November 6 to 8, ably arranged by Texas attorney Michael Minor. All reports of this have been full of praise, and for next year plans are in hand for a Shroud Conference in Richmond, Virginia, for the weekend of 17-20 June. ...
•   Barrie now has high hopes of achieving his long -term goal of producing a Shroud CD-ROM, something along the lines of a National Gallery and Encyclopaedia Britannica, of Shroud images and information.   This would immediately become the world’s finest resource for Shroud information.   Details of this are included in this Newsletter, and members are warmly recommended to study Barrie’s special offers on high-quality Shroud photographs, purchasable internationally by credit card, the proceeds from which will go toward the production of the CD-ROM. ...
• Ian Wilson ‘faces in the clouds’ sparring match  of the last two Newsletters now sees Wilson on the defensive, largely thanks to a most impressive pro-Whanger paper presented by the noted Israeli botanist Professor Avinoam Danin at the Turin Congress. ...

• Pope urges testing on shroud .
• TURIN, Italy (AP) - Pope John Paul II knelt in silent prayer Sunday before the Shroud of Turin, and he encouraged scientists to keep testing the linen many believe wrapped the body of the crucified Christ.
• John Paul last saw the shroud in private viewing in 1980, two years after the previous public showing. On Sunday, he became the longest-serving pope of this century, surpassing the 19 years, seven months and seven days of Pius XII, who died in 1958.
• Following the footsteps of more than 1 million pilgrims who have seen the cloth since it went on display last month, John Paul paused before the linen enveloped in a bulletproof case and what he called "mysterious fascination. ...
• The sheet, about 13 feet long and 3 feet wide, is on display for the first time in 20 years in Turin's cathedral. ...
• In 1988, scientists tested scraps of the shroud with Vatican approval and concluded it dated back to between 1260 and 1390. ...
• "Since we're not dealing with a matter of faith, the church can't pronounce itself on such questions," the pope said. "It entrusts to scientists the tasks of continuing to investigate, to reach adequate answers to the questions connected to this shroud. ...
• But the pope urged scientists to respect both "scientific methodology and the sensibility of the faithful. ...
• Whatever its origin, the 78-year-old pontiff said the shroud is for him "the icon of the suffering of the innocent of all times. ...
• The shroud, which barely escaped a disastrous fire in the cathedral last year, has also become big business.
• Although thousands of reservations are still available, church officials expect at least 2 million will see the shroud by the time the display ends June 14.
• The shroud will be shown again during Holy Year celebrations in 2000, and there are indications more tests might be allowed after that.
• Meanwhile, the pope said, "it is right to nourish the awareness of the preciousness of this image, which all see and no one, for now, can explain. ...

• New Book Reveals Scientific Controversy Surrounding Turin Shroud.
• Harry Gove, a physicist who took his quest to determine the age of the famed Turin Shroud all the way to the pope, has published a book recounting the remarkable clash between science and religion that he witnessed in the decade-long struggle to subject Jesus' purported burial cloth to the rigors of modern carbon dating. The book offers readers the first behind-the- scenes peek into the very public wrangling over the shroud. ...
• Gove, now a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Rochester, was one of three researchers who in 1977 developed accelerator mass spectrometry for carbon dating, a technology that definitively disproved the authenticity of the Turin Shroud 11 years later. Gove's book, Relic, Icon or Hoax? Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud, tells how he was soon swept into the all-encompassing debate over the shroud -- a relic that has mystified Christians ever since its first recorded appearance in 1353. ...
• It is now stored by the Roman Catholic Church in the cathedral at Turin, Italy. ...
• "I wasn't even aware of the Turin Shroud until my interest was sparked by a letter I received in 1977 from an Anglican priest who had seen an article in Time magazine about our work with accelerator mass spectrometry," Gove says. "He wanted to know if this technology -- which accurately determines the age of artifacts by measuring carbon isotopes in samples of only fractions of a milligram -- might be used on the shroud. ...
• Over the next decade, Gove and a handful of other would-be shroud analysts successfully took on reluctant church officials, culminating in a dramatic 1986 meeting with Pope John Paul II followed by a workshop on procedures for dating the shroud. Gove and company also overcame the interference of a group of rival scientists who were certain of the shroud's authenticity. Finally the church relented, but it allowed tiny fragments of the shroud to be tested at only three institutions; much to Gove's chagrin, Rochester was not among them. ...
• After years of intrigue and delays, the first scientific analysis of the Turin Shroud on May 6, 1988 revealed it to be other than Jesus' burial shroud: The flax from which it was made was harvested within three decades of the year 1325. ...
• The lull in the Turin Shroud debate prompted by this finding has recently given way to new speculation. Some scientists, who continue to insist on the shroud's authenticity, have suggested that the carbon dating was skewed by contaminants on the shroud. ...
• "The shroud would have to be 70 percent contaminants for the dating to be so far off," he says. ...
• Scientists and shroud enthusiasts alike have received the book favorably. ...

• Pope thanks Fatima Virgin for saving his life .
•       As the bishops of the world joined in, Pope John Paul II prayed on Saturday before a statue of the Madonna of Fatima, who he believes saved his life during a 1981 assassination attempt. ...
•          Appearing in good form, the Pope appeared with the statue in St. ... Doctor's said the bullet took a miraculous path away from vital organs and blood vessels and the Pope recovered despite losing three-quarters of his blood. ...
•        The shooting occurred on May 13 -- anniversary of the first Fatima apparition -- and during his recovery the Pope saw a miracle in the sun, as was also reported in the last Fatima apparition on October 13, 1917. ...
•        Earlier this year the Vatican released contents of the famous Fatima third secret and in it was the prophecy of a "bishop in white" (the Pope is bishop of Rome) who would be felled by a bullet. ...
•           The 80-year-old Pope had the statue brought to Rome from Fatima for a Holy Year celebration attended by some 1,500 of the world's 4,430 Roman Catholic bishops. ...
•        In a sign of gratitude a year after the assassination attempt, the Pope had one of the 9 mm bullets which Agca fired at him placed in the crown of the three-foot statue. ...
• `       `One hand fired the bullet and another guided it,'' the Pope once said of Agca's attempt to kill him. ...
•        Today  the Pope will preside at a ceremony entrusting the world to the Madonna. ...
•       The act in Rome comes at a dramatic time when the Shroud of Turin is also on display and prophecies are rife concerning coming "chastisements. ...

• Vatican Says New Tests Possible on Turin Shroud V A T I C A N C I T Y, May 23, 2000 (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church could allow new tests to be carried out on the Shroud of Turin to try to solve the riddle of one of Christianity's most enduring enigmas, the archbishop of Turin said Monday. ...
• , concluded in 1988 that the Shroud dated from between 1260 and 1390. ...
• On Display for Holy Year Archbishop Poletto said he had noted divisions over the carbon dating results among the 39 scientists who attended a Shroud symposium in March, 2000. The Shroud goes on display in Turin from Aug. ... " The Shroud, which is kept in Turin, belongs to the Vatican, and it would have to give its permission for any new testing. ...
• But Poletto's suggestion that new tests could take place was a major about-turn: His predecessor as Turin archbishop, Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, flatly ruled out allowing more tests when the Shroud last went on public display in 1998. ...
• "Any future new tests to date the Shroud will be authorized only when the method has been clarified further," Monsignor Giuseppe Ghiberti, one of the church's top Shroud officials, said. ...
• "Otherwise, the concerns expressed by one part of the scientific world over that dating, which could be affected by the trials and tribulations of the Shroud over the centuries and in particular the heat from fires, would affect any new tests. ...
• The Vatican does not claim the Shroud is authentic but treasures and venerates it as a powerful reminder of Christ's passion. ...
• Pope John Paul said in 1998 after traveling to Turin to pray before the Shroud that scientists should keep seeking answers to its mystery but should keep an open mind. ...
• Poletto said the Pope and Russian Patriarch Alexiy II had both been invited when the Shroud goes on display this year. The two men, whose churches are undergoing a period of strained relations, have never met but the pope dreams of visiting Moscow. ...
• "They've already told me it will be very hard for the pope to come back to Turin because of his Holy Year commitments here in Rome, but the pope has surprised us with unexpected gestures, before and I haven't lost hope," Poletto said. ...

• New Book Reveals Scientific Controversy Surrounding Turin Shroud .
• Harry Gove, a physicist who took his quest to determine the age of the famed Turin Shroud all the way to the pope, has published a book recounting the remarkable clash between science and religion that he witnessed in the decade-long struggle to subject Jesus' purported burial cloth to the rigors of modern carbon dating. The book offers readers the first behind-the- scenes peek into the very public wrangling over the shroud. ...
• Gove, now a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Rochester, was one of three researchers who in 1977 developed accelerator mass spectrometry for carbon dating, a technology that definitively disproved the authenticity of the Turin Shroud 11 years later. Gove's book, Relic, Icon or Hoax? Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud, tells how he was soon swept into the all- encompassing debate over the shroud -- a relic that has mystified Christians ever since its first recorded appearance in 1353. ...
• It is now stored by the Roman Catholic Church in the cathedral at Turin, Italy. ...
• "I wasn't even aware of the Turin Shroud until my interest was sparked by a letter I received in 1977 from an Anglican priest who had seen an article in Time magazine about our work with accelerator mass spectrometry," Gove says. "He wanted to know if this technology -- which accurately determines the age of artifacts by measuring carbon isotopes in samples of only fractions of a milligram -- might be used on the shroud. ...
• Over the next decade, Gove and a handful of other would-be shroud analysts successfully took on reluctant church officials, culminating in a dramatic 1986 meeting with Pope John Paul II followed by a workshop on procedures for dating the shroud. Gove and company also overcame the interference of a group of rival scientists who were certain of the shroud's authenticity. Finally the church relented, but it allowed tiny fragments of the shroud to be tested at only three institutions; much to Gove's chagrin, Rochester was not among them. ...
• After years of intrigue and delays, the first scientific analysis of the Turin Shroud on May 6, 1988 revealed it to be other than Jesus' burial shroud: The flax from which it was made was harvested within three decades of the year 1325. ...
• The lull in the Turin Shroud debate prompted by this finding has recently given way to new speculation. Some scientists, who continue to insist on the shroud's authenticity, have suggested that the carbon dating was skewed by contaminants on the shroud. ...
• "The shroud would have to be 70 percent contaminants for the dating to be so far off," he says. ...
• Scientists and shroud enthusiasts alike have received the book favorably. ...

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•  Validating the Shroud Catholic Answers Live interview with John & Rebecca Jackson, operators of the Turin Shroud Center in Colorado Springs (requires RealPlayer) .
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•  Shroud of Turin Given New Life Six years after the cloth was declared a fraud, researchers say hidden images prove it held Jesus in his tomb. ...
•  Straight Answers: Shroud of Turin (Part 1): March 25, 1999 .
•  Straight Answers: Shroud of Turin (Part 2): April 1, 1999 .
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• The shroud from Turin.
• The shroud from Turin could date from the 1st century. ... According to the former head of the textile department of the Abegg foundation in Riggisberg in Switzerland, the high quality and skilful presentation of the shroud certainly do not contradict this. Representatives from the church and the field of science gave advice on the actual standpoint with regards to the the question of fixing a date and on a permanent exhibition for the shroud in Turin. A replica of the shroud was on on show during the press conference in the Pavilion.
• Large press conference in the central room of the Pavilion: A group of experts report on the shroud from Turin. ...
• Karlheinz Dietz, Professor of Ancient History at Würzburg University was doubtful about the validity of the proposition of the radio carbon method, which as a result places the shroud as dating from the C14th. ...
• Archaeologists also share the view that the the shroud from Turin could first of all not date from the Middle Ages on the grounds of the evidence of the sources. ...
• Giuseppe Ghiberti, Professor of exegetics and Vice-President of the Commission for the exhibition of the shroud from Turin, Simona Cane-Klipp, interpreter, Archbishop Severino Poletto, Archbishop of Turin and Papal Custo for the shroud from Turin, Holger Baum, Moderator and Managing Director of Media Company, Dr. ...
• The Prelate, Giuseppe Ghiberti, Vice-President of the Commission for the exhibition of the shroud in Turin emphasized that it could be viewed as a ‘mirror of the gospel’ and also as a help in belief. The Professor of exegetics in Turin says that we should consider, in the importance of fixing a date, the fact that the majority of young people have experienced and lived their beliefs without knowing about the Holy Shroud.
• The attention of the Archbishop of Turin, Severino Poletto was drawn at the exhibition of the shroud in Turin from the 12th - 22nd October. Pope John Paul II is said to have given impetus to newly exhibiting the shroud in the Holy Year after the last presentation. ... A series of booklets, translated into German from the exhibition in Turin will be published by the firm in Regensburg Schnell & Steiner and will deal with various scientific questions on the shroud. ... Albrecht Weiland there will be seven booklets published, they will also contain information on the history of the shroud and on fixing a date using the radio carbon method.
• Official internet sights on the shroud of Turin.

• The holy shroud of turin: genuine or fraud?.
• The Shroud of Turin – a linen cloth 14 feet 3 inches long and 3 feet seven inches wide that bears the superficial imprint of the body of a man – is an object of fascination. ... In 1988, the Shroud was opened to the public for a period of some 50 days. ... So, what is the truth about the Shroud? Is it genuine or is it a fraud? The facts will help us to decide. ...
• The first record of the Shroud dates to 544 C. ... In 944 the Shroud was recorded as being in Constantinople. Whether or not this is the same piece of cloth that is now held in the San Giovanni Battista in Turin is a matter of debate. ...
• The next documented record of the Shroud takes us to 15th Century France. ... In 1578, it was taken by Emmanuel Philibert to Turin where it has remained ever since. ...
• In 1988, the Shroud was subjected to radiocarbon dating to determine its age. ... In an official statement, the archbishop of Turin, stated, "In entrusting the evaluation of these results to science, the church reiterates its respect and veneration for this venerable icon of Christ, which remains an object of veneration for the faithful. ...
• Despite the clear scientific evidence disproving the authenticity of the Shroud, Church authorities continue to declare it as legitimate. On May 24, 1998, for instance, pope John Paul 11 said that the Shroud was “the imprint left by the tortured body of the Crucified One. ...
• Title: The holy shroud of turin: genuine or fraud?.

• Body of evidence shows Shroud of Turin is a forgery! .
• Amherst, NY (August 16, 2000)--The Shroud of Turin was unveiled for a rare two-month public viewing on Saturday, August 12, in Turin, Italy. ... " He and other caretakers of the shroud say they are open to a scientific reexamination of the cloth. But will any one test settle the dispute over the shroud's history? Most researchers are eager to test hypotheses that focus on one narrow aspect of the shroud. ...
• Scientists insist that the 1988 radiocarbon dating--performed at three independent labs--demonstrates once and for all that the shroud is a 14th century forgery. ...
• He has employed this method in his research and is convinced that the shroud is indeed a medieval forgery. Nickell is author of Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (Prometheus 1998)-a study that relies on evidence from the Catholic church's own documents and the gospel account of St. John, in addition to the "hard" scientific evidence from chemical, microscopic and radiocarbon analyses. ... "The preponderance of evidence" says Nickell "leads to the conclusion that the shroud is the work of a medieval artisan. ...
• The records of the Turin shroud start abruptly in the 14th century A. ... The earliest document is a bishop's report to Pope Clement VII, dated 1389. ...
• In the late 1970s, forensic microanalyst Walter Crone, an expert in examining the authenticity of documents and paintings, identified the "blood" of the shroud as red ocher and vermilion tempera paint, and concluded that the entire image was painted. ...
• The 1988 shroud carbon dating--conducted by laboratories in Zurich, Switzerland, Oxford, England, and the University of Arizona--yielded close results, giving a date range of A. ... This range coincides with the forger's confession in the report to Pope Clement. Claims that the carbon dating was flawed ignore the fact that the shroud would have to be contaminated with twice its own weight in contaminating material to push the cloth's age back to the first century A. ...
• Finally, the Turin shroud contradicts the account of Jesus' burial in the Gospel of John. ... (John 19:40 and 20:6-7). John also says that Jesus' body was buried in a large quantity of aloes and myrrh: no trace of either spice has been found on the shroud. ...

• Turin Archdiocese to open shroud display earlier for youth.
• VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With World Youth Day in mind, the Archdiocese of Turin moved up the opening of the jubilee year exhibition of the city's most famous religious item. ...
• The Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be Christ's burial cloth, will go on display Aug. ...
• 14, to view the shroud either before or after the week of youth-centered events, which ends Aug. ...
• ``Since World Youth Day this year is part of the jubilee, seeing the shroud can be a moment of faith in this great experience for young people,'' Msgr. ...
• ``We hope that at least those people who pass through Turin on the way to Rome, those from France or northern Europe, will stop and see the shroud. ...
• To make bookings easier, the Turin Archdiocese set up an online reservation system at www. ... Tickets can be sent via e-mail or regular mail or picked up directly in Turin upon arrival. ...
• The Shroud of Turin was last on display in 1998, when Pope John Paul II visited it. ...

•   The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin.
• Author: John C. ...
• The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin: New Scientific Evidence "may be," in the words of Walter M. ... , "the most useful book on the Shroud for people to have. ... Is it the ancient burial cloth of Jesus or a hoax? What did the recent Carbon-14 tests prove or disprove? How were the mysterious images on the Shroud created? This remarkable book reads like a mystery novel or detective story as it unravels the answers to these and other intriguing questions in a thoroughtly researched and documented manner.
• John C. Iannone, is Vice Chairman of the Holy Shroud Task Force, an organization of scientists, scholars, writers and interested individuals working to preserve the Shroud from modern environmental damage and to promote continued studies and testing of this precious relic. ...
• "A very readable, up-to-date and concise resume of the history and mystery of the Shroud. Well-documented, footnoted and produced, it belongs in the upper echelon of recent books on the Shroud" --Rex Morgan, Editor Shroud News .
• "What a wonderful summary of Shroud research over the years!" --Paul C. ...
• "A lucid and straight-forward book, The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin has 10 chapters, including 'Credibly Discrediting the Carbon-14 Test on the Shroud,' plus Chronology, Appendix, full notes, bibliography and name and subject indices. ...
• "Mother Angelica asked that I write on her behalf to let you know how much she appreciates receiving a copy of your book, The Mystery of the Shroud: New Scientific Evidence. She has a great appreciation for the Shroud as she quite often meditates on Our Lord's Passion. ...
• "John Iannone has done a great work in this book. The Shroud is a silent witness to the truth, and Jesus is the Truth. Our Dominican cloistered nuns here at Summit venerate a three hundred-year-old true copy of the Shroud. ... I would hope that many would procure this book on the Shroud, and realize as they read it: "Greater love than this no man has that a man lay down his life for his friends. ...

• Shroud of Turin exhibit closes.
• TURIN, Italy -- Visitors flocked to view the mysterious Shroud of Turin on Sunday, its last day on public display until the year 2000.
• The linen, which many believe had wrapped the body of Jesus after his crucifixion, was opened to public viewing in Turin's cathedral on April 18. ...
• Among the VIPs was Pope John Paul II, who knelt in silent prayer before the bulletproof display case last month. ...
• In 1988, scientists concluded the 14-foot-long, 31/2-foot-wide shroud dated to the 13th or 14th century, although some experts dispute that conclusion.
• The scientists who dated the shroud have admitted they couldn't explain how the image on the linen -- a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Christ -- was formed.
• The shroud will be back on display as part of Holy Year celebrations. ...

• 1976: USAF physicists John Jackson and Eric Jumper, after analysing the image on state-of-the-art NASA equipment, claim that the Shroud image contains “3-D information. ...
• 1976: 3-D image of the Turin Shroud.
• 1978: The American Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) are allowed access to the Shroud to conduct scientific tests.
• 1997 11 April: The Shroud is dramatically rescued from a fire that severely damages the cathedral. ...
• 1933: Shroud displayed to mark the Holy Year. ... These form the basis of all Shroud studies for the next 45 years. ...
• 1940: Shroud moved to a monastery in southern Italy for the duration of the war. It is returned to Turin in 1946. ...
• The last king, Umberto II, goes into exile, but the Shroud remains in Turin in the care of the Cathedral. ...
• 1969: The Archbishop of Turin authorises the first scientific examination of the Shroud, to report on its state of preservation, under conditions of strict secrecy. ...
• 1973, 23 November: The Shroud is displayed on Italian television. ...
• 1973, 24 November: The Shroud is secretly examined by a team of scientists and other specialists commissioned by the Archbishop of Turin. ... Several years later he is to claim that these prove that the Shroud came from Jerusalem.
• 1976: USAF physicists John Jackson and Eric Jumper, after analysing the image on state-of-the-art NASA equipment, claim that the Shroud image contains "3-D information".
• 1978 August-October: Shroud displayed for the first time in 45 years. ... In the five days before the exposition, a team of scientists from the American Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), together with Italian scientists, are allowed unprecedented access to the Shroud to conduct scientific tests to date the most extensive analysis of the cloth and image undertaken. ... The STURP tests, and media coverage and books resulting from the exposition, raise the Shroud to the level of a household name outside the Catholic world.

• Exposition of Holy Shroud Features Tridentine Latin Mass in Turin, Italy.
• Turin, 20,06. ...
• We are pleased to inform you that, for the exposition of the Holy Shroud from 12 august to 22 October 2000, the diocesan authority has indicated the Church of Mercy - 41 via Barbaroux - 10122 Turin, as the venue for celebrations of the Holy Mass in the Latin language according to the Roman Missal of 1962 (Pope John XXIII) for priests and groups of pilgrims accompanied by their priests, who usually use this Missal according to the provisions of the Motu Proprio "Ecclesia Dei" (2 July 1988 ) by His Holiness John Paul II and the Rescritto "Quia peculiare munus" (18. ... 1988), or according to the Roman Missal of 1969 (Pope Paul VI ). ...
• We would like to remind you that, in order to venerate the Holy Shroud, it is mandatory: .
• Oreste Bunino " Secretariat of the Holy Shroud Exposition " .

• This replica of the Shroud, shown folded, has been made so that researchers can study its every detail.
• The history of the Shroud of Turin presents an interesting contrast. ...
• The first definite historical appearance of the Shroud comes in a document written in 1389, which describes a public exhibition of the Shroud in 1355 in Lirey, France, by French knight Geoffrey de Charny. That same year, the Shroud is first called a forgery -- a cunning painting -- by Bishop Pierre D'Arcis of Troyes in a letter to the Pope. The cloth becomes the property of the House of Savoy, Italy's royal family, in 1453, in whose legal possession it will remain until 1986 when it is bequeathed to Pope John Paul II and his successors upon the death of Umberto II of Savoy. ... It was at the Chambery chapel that a fire on December 4, 1532, damaged the Shroud, which some believe affected the 1988 radiocarbon dating of the material. In 1578 the relic is moved to Turin, Italy, and first became known as the Shroud of Turin. The move, says historian and Shroud expert Ian Wilson, "was partly because a Cardinal from Milan Charles Borromeo was going to visit the Shroud and was planning to take the journey on foot from Milan to Chambery, so they brought the Shroud to Turin to save him part of the journey. " Apart from being moved into hiding during World War II, the Shroud has remained in Turin ever since.
• Prior to 1389, the history of the Shroud is more nebulous. "You find cloths called 'the shroud' or 'a shroud,' being kept in different places," Wilson says. "There is a shroud referred to in Jerusalem, one in Constantinople in 1204, but there didn't seem to be a clear pattern of anything that could be built up into a history. ... "It was not called a shroud, but it became very celebrated. ...
• This illustration serves as an early example of the public exhibition of the Shroud.
• " There is no record of the Edessa Cloth after that point -- or, indeed, of any cloth imprinted with the image of Christ, until the cloth that would become known as the Shroud of Turin turns up in the possession of Geoffrey de Charny in the 1350s. Wilson believes that the Edessa Cloth and the Shroud of Turin are one in the same.

• Shroud of Turin.
• Jeff and Sara Barefoot of Toledo, Ohio, react to the bloody image of the scourged back ot the Man of the Shroud during their visit to the photographic exhibit of the Shroud of Turin at the Durham Western Heritage Museum in Omaha. The exhibit said the Man of the Shroud suffered 121 lashings with steel dumbells covered with spikes. ...
• The startling image was what researchers say the back of the Man of the Shroud looked like after being scourged. ...
• The picture was one of more than 50 images on display in the Shroud of Turin Exhibit at the Durham Western Heritage Museum in Omaha. ...
• The Shroud of Turin, a sheet of linen approximately 14 feet long and 3. ...
• History indicates that the shroud was taken to France around 1261 – first to Lirey, then to Chambery. ... In 1578, the shroud was taken to Turin in Italy where it remains today. The actual shroud never leaves Turin.
• Many people, including Pope John Paul II, believe it to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
• The exhibit, prepared by Eastman Kodak and administered by The Holy Shroud Center, provides a setting for the theories on the Shroud of Turin and scientific evidence to support its authenticity as the burial cloth of Jesus. It includes a life-sized transparency of the Shroud of Turin, and features a historical interpretation of the crucifixion, as reported in the Gospel of John. Additionally, more than 50 photographs, charts and diagrams explain the historical setting of the shroud: the scientific study of the remains depicting the scourging, crowning of thorns, the walk to Calvary, the crucifixion and burial of the Man of the Shroud.
• Much controversy has surrounded the Shroud of Turin and its authenticity.
• Some skeptics say the shroud is a painting or a hoax, but researchers claim they have found evidence of human male blood on the linen. In fact, the image on the shroud could not be a painting, they say, because there are no signs of penetration, no outline or brushstrokes, no style of any period or directionality, no binder to hold paint and no evidence of paint, dye, ink or chalk.

• Pope John Paul II.
•     John Paul II has been credited with helping to bring down communism in eastern Europe by sparking what amounted to a peaceful revolution in his Polish homeland. ... actually,  John Paul II was a catalyst in the collapse of Communism.
•     On June 2, 1979: Historic homily of John Paul II at Victory Square in Warsaw: "It is not possible to understand the history of the Polish nation without Christ. ...
•     January 15, 1981: John Paul II receives in audience a delegation headed by Lech Walesa of the Polish Independent Syndicate Solidarnosc.
•                    The Pope with Lech Walesa.
•     Lech Walesa, the founder of the Solidarity worker movement that ultimately toppled communism, credited John Paul with giving Poles the courage to rise up. "The pope started this chain of events that led to the end of communism," Walesa said. ...
•    January 13, 1987: John Paul II receives in audience the Communist President of the Council of the People's Republic of Poland, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. ...
•     Later, as Pope, John Paul II spoke of human dignity, the right to religious freedom and a revolution of the spirit--not insurrection. ...
•     John Paul II's 1979 trip was the fulcrum of revolution which led to the collapse of Communism. Timothy Garton Ash put it this way, "Without the Pope, no Solidarity. ... " (In fact, Gorbachev himself gave the Kremlin's long-term enemy this due, "It would have been impossible without the Pope. ") It was not just the Pope's hagiographers who told us that his first pilgrimage was the turning point. Skeptics who felt Wojtyla was never a part of the resistance said everything changed as John Paul II brought his message across country to the Poles. ...
•     The Pope’s epic June 1979 pilgrimage to his homeland there were nine days on which the history of the 20th century pivoted. In those forty-some sermons, addresses, lectures, and impromptu remarks, the Pope told his fellow-countrymen, in so many words: “You are not who they say you are. ... ” By restoring to the Polish people their authentic history and culture, John Paul created a revolution of conscience that, fourteen months later, produced the nonviolent Solidarity resistance movement, a unique hybrid of workers and intellectuals — a “forest planed by aroused consciences,” as the Pope’s friend, the philosopher Jozef Tischner once put it. And by restoring to his people a form of freedom and a fearlessness that communism could not reach, John Paul II set in motion the human dynamics that eventually led, over a decade, to what we know as the Revolution of 1989. ...

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