Jerry Conniker had a great show on in the early 90s on EWTN on which he brought to seekers the many 100s of miracles of Christendom. Is there other evidence for the shroud being older than the radiocarbonists dating of the 14th century? It is very suggestive that the face of the man of the shroud and its unique features has been depicted on iconography dating as early as the 6th century CE. Superimposition of the shroud face with the 6th century icon from St. Catherines monastery in the Sinai shows 170 points of congruity (Whanger, A. Applied Optics 24, no. 16, 1985, pp 766-772) as does the shroud face with the gold solidus of Justinian II (692 CE). Although this is very suggestive, one could pose that much of the iconography of the Byzantine period had some, now unknown, model and if the shroud was an artifice of 14th century Europe, an icon could have been used as a model. This would be a valid scientific counter-point. What would be required would be a depiction of what would be unmistakeably the shroud in a document or icon that pre-dates the 14th century date offered by the radiocarbon results. Such a representation would have to feature some unique characteristic of the shroud. Such a representation does indeed exist. Sometime in the distant past, the folded shroud was subjected to abuse with a hot poker, perhaps as an act of vandalism to a Christian relic or a test of fire by a zealous Christian. When folded, the four burn holes are arranged in an L shaped pattern. The unfolded shroud displays four sets of these four burn holes symetrically on both the dorsal and frontal halves of the shroud, evidence of the hot poker having penetrated the folded layers of the cloth. These burn holes are unique to the Shroud of Turin. In the Byzantine Christian era, the gamma and notched bands of Jewish talitoth were used as decorations on tunics and altar cloths. The Christians who adopted these patterns apparently were unaware that the band and the gamma were used on tunics of men (band) and women (gamma) respectively. See Yigael Yadin, Bar Kochba 1971, Random House, Chapter 7 The Wardrobe Pp 66-85. During the Byzantine period, around the 5th and 6th centuries, just at the time the Image of Edessa was rediscovered in the city wall, the gamma marking was used on altar cloths which were called Gammadia. Did some overzealous Christian or vandal have this in mind when he burned the gamma shaped figure into the folded cloth? An illustration of the entombed and enshrouded Jesus of Nazareth is found in a prayer book from Budapest known as the Pray Manuscript. The illustration not only depicts the unique L pattern of burn holes but also the unique weave pattern of the shroud. There can be no mistake that the Pray Manuscript of 1192 was modeled from the Shroud of Turin. So much for the 14th century date claimed by the flawed radiocarbon dating and certainly support for Drs. Kouznetsov, Mattingly and Garza. youtube/watch?v=fewB_BpTOdc
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:10:32 +0000
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