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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CNS) -- The wide publicity and controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" have brought a spike of new interest in the Shroud of Turin, which many believe was Jesus' burial cloth. John P. and Rebecca S. Jackson, who run the Turin Shroud Center of Colorado in Colorado Springs, and Barrie Schwortz, who runs the interactive Web site www.shroud.com, reported a significant increase in calls or visits since the movie came out. "This is normally a busy time of the year for us, but there's been about a 40 percent increase" in phone calls, said...

IT'S been called the longest-running hoax in history - an 800-year-old religious riddle that's taken in popes, scientists and believers from all faiths. The Turin Shroud has been either worshipped as divine proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave or dismissed as a fraud created by medieval forgers. But new evidence suggests the shroud might be genuine after all. (I COULD NOT GET THE PICTURE TO SHOW THAT IS ON THE London Mirror SITE?) HAUNTING: The face on the shroud As Mel Gibson's film The Passion Of The Christ rekindles interest in Jesus, stitching on the shroud which could...

IT'S been called the longest-running hoax in history - an 800-year-old religious riddle that's taken in popes, scientists and believers from all faiths.The Turin Shroud has been either worshipped as divine proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave or dismissed as a fraud created by medieval forgers.But new evidence suggests the shroud might be genuine after all. HAUNTING: The face on the shroudAs Mel Gibson's film The Passion Of The Christ rekindles interest in Jesus, stitching on the shroud which could have been created only during the messiah's lifetime has been uncovered.At the same time, tests from 1988 that...

Shroud of Turin history presented in UpstateRetired surgeon relays his nearly 40 years of research on the Shroud of TurinBy SHEILA OJENDYK GREENVILLE — Dr. William E. Rabil has no doubt that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. Rabil, a retired general surgeon from Winston-Salem, N.C., began studying the shroud in the late 1950s and has been lecturing about it for nearly 40 years. He made two slide presentations to parishioners at St. Mary Church on March 6. Rabil began with a brief history of the shroud. After the crucifixion, the shroud was originally hidden...

A ". . . second paper is titled, "The Sermon of Gregory Referendarius, (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)" by Mark Guscin, a man familiar to many of you as the editor of the British Society for the Turin Shroud (BSTS) Newsletter. In this extremely important and just completed paper, Mark, an expert linguist and historian, translates (from the original Greek) the sermon given by Gregory Referendarius in 944. The sermon was pronounced on the occasion of the arrival of the Image of Edessa in Constantinople and was translated into English from the only known surviving manuscript of the sermon,...

PYROLYSIS/MASS SPECTROMETRY APPLIED TO THE SHROUD OF TURIN Raymond N. Rogers Fellow University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM, USA ©2004 Raymond N. Rogers All Rights Reserved Our primary goal in undertaking pyrolysis-MS analyses on samples from the Shroud of Turin was the detection of impurities (e.g., painting materials). Most of the structural materials and probable impurities in Shroud samples were carbohydrates. We wanted to see traces of materia ls that were not carbohydrates. The samples were run at the Midwest Center for Mass Spectrometry (MCMS), University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This is a National Science Foundation "Center of...

Shroud of germsStephen Mattingly believes the Turin shroud was 'painted' by bacteria from a dying man's body. Laura Spinney meets the Catholic microbiologist challenging the medieval hoax theory Laura Spinney Thursday June 12, 2003The GuardianThe image of a tall, bearded man bearing the marks of crucifixion that adorn the Turin shroud has never been adequately explained. Those who have attempted to answer the vexed question of the shroud's origins have often found themselves accused of poor science, even vested interests. So it is a brave man who enters the fray with a new and ultimately unprovable theory. But a respected...

Shroud of Turin Tonight's guest Mark Antonacci will present evidence about the controversial Shroud. Mark Antonacci , author of Resurrection of the Shroud, says new tests will prove that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. He also claims that scientific tests can be performed on the Shroud, on blood, pollen, and cloth samples that refute the cloth’s controversial carbon dating. turn your radios on,at coast to coast tonight 10pm to 2am some stations repeat show until 5am.

The Shroud of Turin is an ancient piece of fine linen, 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide, with the front and back images of a male who has been scourged, beaten, crowned with thorns, crucified, and pierced in the heart in a manner consistent with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth as described in Scripture. The last information that most Christians have on the Shroud of Turin is from the 1988 carbon 14 dating studies which announced world-wide, on the basis of a test on a single sample from the Shroud by three laboratories, that...

One Christmas, when I was very young, my father gave me a chemistry set. I remember the metal box filled with little bottles of chemicals, test tubes, stirring rods and a clamp for holding test tubes over a small alcohol burner. That Christmas morning my father and I set up the chemistry set on the kitchen counter and tried some of the experiments described in a book that came with the set. I remember one of the experiments in particular because, now looking back on it, I think it had a profound impact on my life. It was probably...

A “No Parking” sign posted to keep the street in front of a South Alpine home clear of unwelcome vehicles has done just the opposite, with many local residents claiming to see the face of Jesus Christ in dark patterning on the sign. Pilgrims and curiosity seekers make the trip to the home of Luisa Ibarra, 610 W. Avenue I, nightly to discern the “image” in the sign. According to Ibarra, owner of the residence across from the old Centennial School, a friend of her grandson, Michael Carrillo, first noticed the image. “His friend asked if we had noticed the...

The link is to an open letter written by Shroud of Turin historian Daniel Porter to John Dominic Crossan, who is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a fellow and a former co-chair of the Jesus Seminar. Professor Crossan has published works suggesting that Jesus Christ was not buried because peasants, which he maintains Jesus was, would not have been able to afford a tomb and that crucified peasants would have been allowed to rot on the cross or fed to the dogs. The letter is an excellent thumbnail review of the scholarship and...

RESTORATION OF SHROUD OF TURIN IS COMPLETED Patches and Additions RemovedTURIN, Italy, SEPT. 22, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The figure of the crucified man imprinted on the Shroud of Turin can now be more clearly seen, following its restoration by experts.At the official presentation of the restored shroud Saturday, Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, explained that the purpose of the work was to guarantee the conservation of the cloth. The work involved the removal of patches sewn on the shroud 470 years ago.The cardinal, who is the relic's pontifical custodian, said that the restoration was carried out with the permission of...

TURIN, Italy (AP) - Experts performed a top-secret restoration of the Shroud of Turin, removing centuries' old patches and a replacing a backing sewn centuries ago onto what some say was the burial cloth of Jesus, Church officials announced Saturday. AP Photo The restoration was carried out with explicit Vatican ( news - web sites) permission, and aimed only to protect and document the artifact. The project consisted of three main elements: the removal of patches and a backing sewn onto the Shroud in the 16th century; a digital scan of both sides; and photo documentation. The restoration was done...

Restored Shroud Unveiled Photograph © 2002 Archdiocese of Turin As I reported in August, a major restoration of the Shroud of Turin was undertaken by its owners in June-July 2002. All thirty of the patches sewn into the cloth in 1534 by the Poor Clare nuns to repair the damage caused by the 1532 fire were removed, allowing the first unrestricted view of the actual holes burned into the cloth by the fire. It appears that some of the most seriously charred areas around the burn holes were also removed during the restoration. The backing cloth (known as the Holland...

The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. Is it really the cloth that wrapped his crucified body, or is it simply a medieval forgery, a hoax perpetrated by some clever artist? Modern, twentieth century science has completed hundreds of thousands of hours of detailed study and intense research on the Shroud. It is, in fact, the single most studied artifact in human history, and we know more about it today than we ever have before. And yet, the...

Abstract: In 1988, Carbon-14 findings from three Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) Labs independently dated a sample removed from the Shroud of Turin: unarguably the most widely studied linen cloth in history. The dates reported ranged between 1260 -1390 A.D.; thus, leading to the conclusion that the cloth originated in the middle ages. This paper, previously presented on August 28, 2000 at the Worldwide Congress "Sindone 2000" in Orvieto, Italy, presents evidence that the sample tested by the three AMS labs contained a "patch" of material from the 16th Century(!). The authors examine the theory that this extraneous material was skillfully...

WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE Evidence of the risen Christ? Special Easter report sheds new light on reputed burial cloths of Jesus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 12, 2002 1:08 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The March edition of WND's acclaimed monthly magazine, Whistleblower concludes with an in-depth and stunning report on the Shroud of Turin – the 14-foot-long piece of linen believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. The most studied artifact in human history, the image of a crucified man mysteriously emblazoned upon it – in a way modern technology has been unable to duplicate – is breathtaking....