Tuesday, September 20, 2016

5 minutes with... The earliest painted representation of the Turin Shroud


The double-page depiction of the Turin Shroud in its undamaged state, held by three Bishops, is perhaps the earliest explicit painted representation of the holy relic as we know it today.

Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts specialist Eugenio Donadoni explains how while looking through a series of unrecorded illuminations in a 16th-century prayerbook he made one quite startling discovery. [More here.]

Saturday, March 19, 2016

A Grave Injustice

This video reveals how the C14 laboratories that tested the Shroud failed to follow their own protocols to ensure a definitive dating and failed to place their result in the context of this fact and of the weight of other evidence that contradicts it.