Shroud: Links

* Holy Shroud Guild Past, Present and Future
Founded in 1951 by the late Father Edward Wuenschel, Father Adam Otterbein, Father Peter Rinaldi and Father Francis Filas, this organization and its founders served as STURP's primary liaison to the Shroud's custodians prior to and during the 1978 scientific examination of the Shroud. Dedicated to promoting the devotion and scientific research of the cloth, over the decades the Guild made available a large selection of Shroud books, photographs and other materials. Until its work came to an end in recent years, it was the oldest organization dedicated to the Shroud of Turin in the United States. Now, Georgio Bracaglia has taken on the task of archiving and preserving the Guild's materials and posting many of their excellent resources online.

* How Image Enhancement May Explain Past Events
Article reprinted from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's house magazine, JPL Universe, dated July 5, 1977. Here is an excerpt from the article: In the truth is stranger than fiction category a phone call to NASA's JPL from a member of the Christ Brotherhood in New Mexico, requesting image analysis of a religious relic, has drawn two men from JPL's image processing lab into a fascinating investigation of the famous Shroud of Turin.

* Internal Selvedge in Starched and Dyed Temple Mantle
A preliminary version of this article by A.A.M. van der Hoeven appeared on Dan Porter's Blog. This link is to an updated version on the author's website. It challenges both the invisible reweaving hypothesis and the Maillard reaction hypothesis of Ray Rogers.

* Keramion, The
This is the website of Philip E. Dayvault and DATUM ENTERPRISE, LLC. As many of you know, Phil is a former FBI Special Agent and Physical Science Technician, who has followed and studied the Shroud since 1973. In 1994, he co-founded CSST, Council for Study of the Shroud of Turin, and served as its Director for about eight years. The site includes information about his recent book, The Keramion, Lost and Found: A Journey to the Face of God.

* Man In The Shroud, The
This is a link to the Man In the Shroud Home Page. The Man in the Shroud Ministries is a non-profit organization founded by David Onysko, a professional educator, who presents lectures on the Shroud. David is also listed on the Shroud Speakers Directory of this site.

* Man of the Shroud
This is the Man of the Shroud website, the home page of the museum quality traveling Shroud exhibit that tours throughout Canada each year and is sponsored by the Vancouver Shroud Association (VSA). The website features many photographs of the exhibit, which is available throughout Canada and the northern U.S. Contact the organization directly for booking information.

* McCrone Research Institute Shroud of Turin Page
The McCrone Research Institute, founded by Walter McCrone, noted microscopist, has been active in Shroud research for many years. This website provides an overview of the data that led Walter McCrone to conclude that the Shroud of Turin is a painting. It includes images showing sites on the Shroud where the tape samples used for his microscopic analysis were taken from and references to articles published by Walter McCrone and his staff outlining their tests and their conclusions.

* MNTV Montre-Nous Ton Visage (Show Us Your Face) Website
This is an excellent French Language website presented by one of the major Shroud organizations in France. It is devoted to all aspects of Shroud study, including devotional, scientific and historical. They have a variety of audio-visual materials available including a traveling exposition. Memberships are also available.

* Museum of the Holy Shroud
This is a link to the website of Richard Orareo's Museum of the Holy Shroud, originally located in Wabash, Indiana, but moved in 2019 to the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana. The site includes a photographic gallery of many of the materials on display at the museum. When you click on the Museum tab, you are able to view nearly one hundred high resolution photographs that I made of Richard's collection back in 1999 at the Richmond Conference. And you can zoom in on each for extremely close up views.

* Museum of the Shroud (Museo della Sindone)- Turin, Italy
This link is to the excellent Archdiocese of Turin Official Website. which includes direct links to the Museo Della Sindone section of the site. The Museum is one of the major attractions in Turin and includes many important and historical Shroud artifacts including Secondo Pia's original camera and the silver covered casket the cloth was stored in for hundreds of years. It is the same reliquary that became famous during the dramatic rescue of the Shroud in the April 1997 fire.

* New Heaven New Earth Article: The Shroud of Turin
This excellent 1995 article by David Sunfellow of New Heaven New Earth (NHNE) summarizes what is known about the Shroud of Turin in very clear, non-scientific terms. Of particular note is a pathological report on the individual in the Shroud image by Dr. Robert Bucklin, STURP team member, which is encapsulated and quoted in the article. It also includes links to several additional NHNE Shroud articles.

* Proceedings of the 1986 Hong Kong Shroud Conference:
Once again, William Meacham has provided us with an important historical document in this digital version of the conference program. Scroll down the page a bit and you will find links to each of the articles presented at the conference by such prominent Shroud scholars as Fr. Peter Rinaldi, Ian Wilson, Prof. Luigi Gonella, Dr. Alan Adler, Rex Morgan and of course, William Meacham.

* Ray Downing - Fine Art
Link to the website featuring the fine artwork of Ray Downing, producer of the highly regarded Shroud documentary The Real Face of Jesus in 2010.

* Religious Studies Resource Guide
Link to a Comprehensive Guide for Students and Teachers of Religious Studies

* Right Date for the Wrong Part of the Shroud of Turin, The
This is a link to an article by William Cline, an American who lives and works in Osaka, Japan. I met William at the Columbus, Ohio Shroud Conference in 2008 and this paper is a synthesis of some of the information that was presented there. He consulted with Sue Benford, Joe Marino and Paul Maloney while writing this article, which was published in the journal of the Osaka Jogakuin College, where he works. Also included is a link to an earlier article he wrote in 2007 titled, Is the Shroud of Turin Genuine?

* Rogers' Maillard Reaction Hypothesis Explained In Detail by Rogers Himself
French doctor and Shroud researcher Thibault Heimburger wrote and posted this excellent review of Rogers' work on Dan Porter's Blog in August 2012.

* Shroud Enigma
This is a link to the website of David Rolfe of Performance Films in the U.K. and his recent film titled, A Grave Injustice. David directed the 1978 BAFTA winning film The Silent Witness, a 2008 BBC documentary on the Shroud and produced the official film of the 2010 Shroud Exposition in Turin. The 27 minute film is free to watch on David's site.

* Shroud Exhibit and Museum, Inc. (SEAM)
This is the excellent website of Pete Schumacher and his non-profit organization and Shroud exhibit in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Andy Weiss, Pete's webmaster, has developed and posted a variety of PowerPoint presentations on various aspects of the Shroud.

* Shroud Exhibit And Museum, Inc. Expanded Search Page:
Andy Weiss, webmaster of Pete Schumacher's excellent SEAM website, has created an expanded search page that allows you to select and search specific Shroud websites using Google. A very useful research tool for scholars and students!

* Shroud of Turin Blog by Dan Porter
This is a link to the excellent blog created by Daniel R. Porter. Sadly, he retired the blog on December 31, 2015 but has kept it online so one can still access the archives.