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This is the first instalment of my Shroud of Turin News from August - December 2024. I have fallen more than a year behind in posting my Shroud of Turin News, but I don't want to abandon it, because it will be helpful in writing Chapter 11, "History of the Shroud," of my book in progress, 
Shroud of Turin: Burial Sheet of Jesus! See 06Jul17, 03Jun18, 04Apr22, 13Jul22, 8 Nov 22 & 20Jun24. I am still
[Right (enlarge): The planned cover of my book.]
making steady progress writing my book almost every day. I hope to have it completed in word-processed manuscript form before the end 2026. I still want to write my "Open letter to Nature" but I first need to complete my "Dot points summary of my Hacker Theory" series. But before that I must continue where I left off in my Shroud of Turin News , July-September 2024, otherwise it will be 2026 in a few weeks! Articles will be brief extracts, in reverse date order (most recent uppermost). My comments will be within [bold square brackets] to distinguish them from the articles' words.
Sarzeaud, N., 2025, "Further evidence suggests Jesus was not wrapped in 'Shroud of Turin'," Scimex, 29 August. [See my critique part (1) and part (2). This was a pathetic beat-up by `historian' Nicolas Sarzeaud (1992-), based on a mere footnote (10Oct25) by medieval philosopher Nicole Oresme (1325-82) who never saw the Shroud but repeated the false rumour ("it was said") that the Lirey church "clerics deceive[d] others, inducing them to bring offerings to their church..." but did not dispute that it was "the shroud of the Lord Jesus Christ"[10Oct25]. In his media release Sarzeaud LIED twice (10Oct25 and 12Nov25). I pointed out that in his media release Sarzeaud ignored the scientific evidence for the Shroud being Jesus' burial sheet, and in his journal article Sarzeaud only briefly mentioned that: "In 1898, the Shroud captured public attention after a photograph, with its negative revealing the face of Christ, was seen by many devotees as an undeniable miracle, ruling out any human intervention" (my emphasis)[12Nov25]. I then pointed out, what many Shroudies (including me) are not fully aware of, that it was not only "the face of Christ" in Secondo Pia's 1898 photograph which revealed that the shroudman's image was a photographic negative, but it was the man's double full-length body, front and back (see below)!
[Above (enlarge): The negative plate of one of Secondo Pia's (1855 1941) photographs of the Shroud in 1898, including the altar in Turin Cathedral where it was displayed. As can be seen, on Pia's negative the Shroud image is photographically positive, while everything else is negative[07May16]. The man's face is only a small part of Pia's photograph!]
And that it was impossible for an unknown 14th century forger to depict the double full-length body of Jesus as a photographic negative, let alone also as three-dimensional, extremely superficial, non-directional, and x-rays of hand bones and teeth, etc[12Nov25]. Therefore, the man's image on the Shroud can only be "an undeniable miracle, ruling out any human intervention"[12Nov25]! That is, a snapshot of Jesus' resurrection[10Oct25]!]
To be continued in the second instalment of this post.
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Posted 15 December 2025. Updated 15 December 2025.
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