Friday 6 June, 2025A new documentary on the Shroud will be presented for a limited time from Saturday June 7 on the ARTE platform (Europe). Lasting 90 minutes, it features several speakers in …
January 1st, 2025Will the New Year 2025 bring any breakthroughs or revelations about the Turin Shroud? By whom and on what subject? I have no prognosis, either precise or certain. Precision remains …
2024
January 14, 2024We begin 2024 with some never published material directly related to the Shroud of Turin: photomicrographs of the Shroud taken during the summer of 2002. The six photomicrographs in Figure …
2023
March 12, 2023Humbert II de Viennois (1312 - 22 May 1355). In December 2022, Karlheinz Dietz and I submitted a short paper to the newsletter of the British Society for the Turin …
January 12, 2023The French association Montre Nous Ton Visage (MNTV) has renewed its website at the new address linceul-de-turin.fr . The association publishes its Cahier (Newsletter), containing numerous articles about the Turin …
2020
April 26, 2020 (updated May 9, 2020)Prof. emerit. Karlheinz Dietz. Professor Emeritus Karlheinz Dietz has written numerous high-quality papers on the history of the Shroud of Turin. He is also one of the rare researchers to …
2019
October 19, 2019The symposium on the history of the Shroud was canceled on March 12, due to the COVID-19. Figure 1. On the left, a manuscript, from the archives of the Department …
2018
October 6, 2018The Centre International d'Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin (CIELT) has published a newsletter, called Revue Internationale du Linceul de Turin (RILT) , for more than 20 years. It contains …
September 6, 2018Excerpt from the first page of the manuscript "Pour Scavoir la Verite". Manuscript L 746/2/1, Archives nationales de France (AnF). A new section was added to the French web site …
2017
December 31, 2017Several new entries were added to the French web site at Linceul.org , including a new section on the small village of Lirey where the Shroud was first displayed in …
December 16, 2017A third pilgrim medallion of the Lirey church has been recently discovered. We already know the existence of two different Lirey medallions, one kept at the Cluny museum in Paris, …
August 1, 2017The International Conference on the Shroud of Turin, Pasco, Washington, was held July 19 - 22. Three full days of talks covered many fields, including history and image formation. The …
May 26, 2017The rediscovered wood chest that was used to store a smaller chest that contained the Shroud of Besançon. This wood chest is mainly made of sandalwood, the second most expensive …
Jan 29, 2017I started a new French web site dedicated to the Shroud of Turin . It will focus on the history of the Shroud and French articles, manuscripts and news related …
2016
Dec 24, 2016In the notice Pour scavoir la verite , written around 1525 by one of the canons of the collegiate at Lirey, its author states clearly that the Shroud, known today …
Nov 24, 2016A conference on the Shroud of Turin, organized by Bob Rucker, will take place in the state of Washington in the summer of 2017, July 19 - 22. For more …
Sept 20, 2016The complete underside of the Shroud of Turin had been hidden from observation for more than four centuries until the summer of 2002, when the Holland cloth was unstiched during …
July 10, 2016The Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum in New York City has a large collection of illuminated manuscripts. Among them is the manuscript 499 , a parchment roll of about 3.3 …
2015
December 25, 2015The Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Shroud Linen Fibers by Raymond Rogers In 2005, Raymond Rogers published, in Thermochimica Acta, a study of linen fibers from the Shroud. That study concluded …
August 4, 2015The Shroud of Turin and the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris An elevated baldachin on a platform at the same location where the Grande Châsse containing the relics of Constantinople were kept …
May 16, 2015The castle of Ray-sur-Saône is located about 200 km southwest of Lirey and 50 km north of Besançon. It is often cited in the history of the Shroud of Turin …
May 10, 2015The first ostentations of the Shroud of Turin in the Western world was in Lirey, a hamlet 16 km southwest of Troyes, the nearest large city. Lirey is still today …
February 24, 2015The Shroud of Besançon was as popular as the Shroud of Turin for almost three centuries. It disappeared in 1794 during the French Revolution. The 18th century manuscript 826 from …