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This is the fourth instalment of my Shroud of Turin News from August - December 2024. I have fallen more than a year behind in posting my 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! [Right (enlarge)]. See 06Jul17, 03Jun18, 04Apr22, 13Jul22, 8 Nov 22, 20Jun24 & 01Dec24. I am still making steady progress writing my book almost every day. I hope to have it completed in word-processed manu-script 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.
"Turin Shroud scholar produces more evidence of its authenticity," Church Times, Jonathan Luxmoore, 2 September 2024. THE bloodstains and markings on the Holy Shroud of Turin correspond to the brutal treatment of Christ described in Gospel accounts of his crucifixion, a new study suggests [see 25 Oct24]. The study, published by the University of Padua, is by Professor Giulio Fanti ... a professor of mechanical and thermal measurements ... The Vatican, given ownership in 1983, has not officially pronounced on its authenticity. [As I have posted before, it is duplicitous (two-faced) of the Vatican not to affirm that the Shroud is Jesus' burial cloth[06Oct13; 14Feb14; 17Apr15; 23Jun15; 07May16; 21Feb20; 29Dec20; 29May21; 11May24; 04Jun24]. Because by its actions, spending many millions of US dollars equivalent preserving and exhibiting the Shroud, the Vatican clearly does believe that the Shroud is Jesus' burial sheet. The only alternatives are: the Shroud is a forgery purporting to be Jesus' burial shroud; or it is another man crucified in mockery of Jesus. Neither of those fraudulent alternatives should be acceptable for a church which claims to be Christian. If the claim is that the Shroud is a fake but it "draws people to the tormented face and body of Jesus" as Pope Francis (r. 2013-25) said after viewing the Shroud up close:
"`The icon of this love is the shroud, that, even now, has attracted so many people here to Turin,' Francis said. `The shroud draws [people] to the tormented face and body of Jesus and, at the same time, directs [people] toward the face of every suffering and unjustly persecuted person.'”[TG15]then that is the philosophy that "the end justifies the means." In Roman Catholic theology, an "icon" is a representation of a sacred object, whereas a "relic" is the sacred object itself[23Jun15]. The Apostle Paul condemned those who said, "why not do evil that good may come"? (Rom 3:8). ] In 1988, it was carbon-dated to the 12th century, although some scientists claim that the testing was carried out erroneously on a piece of medieval cloth. [No. The Invisible Repair Theory is fatally flawed (see 28Feb25). The true explanation of why the first century Shroud has a 1260-1390 radiocarbon date is because that date was generated by a hacker's computer program-see 14May25 and 28Jan25.]
"Further evidence suggests Jesus was not wrapped in 'Shroud of Turin'," Scimex, 29 August, Sarzeaud, N. [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 Oresme 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 fourth instalment of this post.
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Bibliography
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TG15. "Pope Francis praises Turin shroud as an 'icon of love'." The Guardian, 21 June 2015.
Posted 15 December 2025. Updated 18 December 2025.
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