Paper Chase: New From the Holy Shroud Guild Site
A reader writes to point out new material at Holy Shroud Guild website:
In 1979, Dr. Eugenia L. Nitowski wrote her dissertation as a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame titled, "Reconstructing the Tomb of Christ from Archaeological and Literary Sources".
In 1986 Dr. Nitowski now known as Sister Damian had conducted a research which she documented in Jerusalem reconstructing the tomb of Christ to demonstrate how it would relate to the image formation on the Holy Shroud of Turin.
http://www.holyshroudguild.org/uploads/2/7/1/7/2717873/SrDamian.swf
Sister Damian in her writings to Father Otterbien has expressed that her studies and findings be shared for all to see. It is my intention to do just that but amongst some of her correspondences to the Guild, concerns about threads taken in 1973 from Dr. Raes’ samples came into questioning.
I strongly advise that if you have any information about the Raes’ samples please use our post comment menu to clarify any discrepancies you find with Sister Damian’s letters when posting commences.
I’ll be starting to post Sister Damian’s work on August 23rd and you’ll be required to sign in by requesting the new password.
Thank you
Giorgio Bracaglia
Take time to browse through this great website
The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. So do many other scientists and archeologists. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory. Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is. But if the newer thread is about half of what was tested – and some evidence suggests that – it is possible that the cloth is from the time of Christ.
I don’t know why but I’m not able to play the videos that we found on the Shroud Guild website… If someone could help me, I would appreciate !!! Thanks !
http://www.youtube.com/user/Holyshroudguild?feature=mhee
Thanks alot ! I’ll check out those videos soon !