The shroud of twill linen kept in Turin Cathedral and claimed to be the one in which the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion. The Pope agreed to radiocarbon dating in 1987, and in 1988

JUNE 2016 PAGE 15 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE TURIN SHROUD NEWSLETTER 83 the-minute, quick fire documentary to whet the appetite of anyone who wanted to inquire further into what they’d seen. ! A

discovered what may well be the reason for the Shroud radiocarbon-dating having been in error. Never a ‘Shroudie’, Garza-Valdes’s chief hobby was ancient Mayan jades. And it was his discovery of

and passed to the BSTS via Don Luigi Fossati of Turin, Ilona Farkas of Rome, and our good friend Isabel Piczek of Los Angeles. Fr. Caporali's translation has here been adapted in order to convey the

which many have thrown off the radiocarbon dating. Cardinal Saldarini said the shroud will go on display in the main section of Turin's renaissance cathedral, which suffered less damage in the April

artefacts that he found to have caused some serious radiocarbon dating errors. This caused him to wonder whether the Shroud might have become covered with a similar accretion that had led to similar errors,

explain the object which is now in the cathedral in Turin...The bravest attempt to declare the Shroud a painting was made by Walter McCrone, a respected art investigator. McCrone detected red particles

John 20.6-7 and the water stains on the Turin Shroud SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1998, 1100 DATATION SESSIONS - ROOM 200 Moderator: Prof. P. Savarino ALONSO, M. - Quelques doutes de nature scientifique sur

last issue of this Newsletter under the mast-head TURIN SHOUD - a piece of mis-keying which I, your editor, must not only have inadvertently perpetrated but also completely failed to spot! - is testimony

The side strip on the Shroud of Turin, the apparent seam separating it from the rest of the cloth, and the two missing panels of cloth at the top and bottom of this strip that reveal the underlying backing