I have posted before on my blogs various statements on the importance of getting all the facts from multiple sources before reaching a conclusion. Today, with everyone staying out of physical touch with other people due to Covid (and eventually the real science will prevail with this horror) this may give us the opportunity to "do our homework" on a Saint that has many people using his feast day as an excuse to celebrate in profusion. 

I am not going to discuss the science behind viruses or masks, (however, only N95 mask will really work, the thin ones are a false sense of security and that is the science from years prior) I want to use the extra at home time to point out some facts and subjective conclusions about Saint Patrick.

His feast day is upon us every March and celebrating is great, however doing so to just get wasted, is not. ​Matthew Kelly wrote: "Don't let a selfish and irresponsible momentary lapse in judgment on your part, create a lifetime of pain and suffering."

Working in tandem with these words we should all know the life and facts about the REAL MAN called Saint Patrick. Immediately one would realize that spending his feast day consuming alcohol is far from any of the virtues St. Patrick lived and died for. It will behoove everyone, as they celebrate St. Patrick's Day, to learn the amazing feats about this holy man. I promise that if you do, you will not spend your time in a bar getting drunk, you will be helping to serve meals at a soup kitchen or hosting a get together (when the virus is over) to honor St. Patrick with benevolent deeds.

St. Patrick won his converts by miraculous acts. Period. How else can anyone explain the conversions? Not one or two individuals converted, but Irish chieftain, after chieftain and their tribes accepted the Catholic faith proclaimed by St. Patrick. Even more mind warping is the fact that these people then rejected their Druidic gods, because St. Patrick brought them no secular advantages as an exchange.

These tribes of people saw and believed that St. Patrick was a man of miraculous power. A power found in the countless Irish legends. If St. Patrick was unable to do miracles, he would have been put to death on day one. What St. Patrick really was to each chieftain, was a threat to their rule. Why would they convert? One word: Miracles.

So do we really need additional proof on who was St. Patrick? His famous prayer "St. Patrick's Breastplate" offers a glimpse into this saint's mind and heart. A man devoted to the Trinity, which legend tells us that he taught this to the Irish and to orthodox Catholicism by means of the shamrock. He was a man of monastic prayer and penance. Go now, accomplish great deeds on his feast day. Do not just believe, know, and great things will happen.

​- LJ
Author of UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD
All Author and Publisher's profits go to help the poor from sales of this Historical Novel

​TRUTH is what the world needs now... I am happy to say that my Historic Novel called UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD is starting new conversations about the Shroud of Turin being 2,000 years old and the actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ Himself.

Also I am especially happy now with all the new movies coming out and new videos presenting the scientific proof on how the Carbon Dating test was right, then wrong. The corner piece of the Shroud taken for testing was mostly made of cotton, not linen like the rest of the Shroud. This piece was a repair patch, cotton dyed to match in color and woven into the surrounding linen. The radiocarbon dating test done in 1988 was correct on the year for the repair patch, but declaring the linen Shroud a medieval fake was a grave injustice to science and the people of our world.


​Barrie Schwortz, President of the not-for-profit STERA, Inc. and member of the STURP team that did the first major study on the Shroud in 1978, presented this Link: A New Video telling the details on why the carbon dating test had failed.

I agree with Barrie's post that this is a "must see" video. Please click on the Link above embedded in the words saying New Video and in a light blue color. Perhaps it is time the media starts presenting the real facts about Jesus' Shroud and that the image is still unexplainable scientifically. God knows today's world needs to hear the one word that does explain the image - Resurrection.

A blessed Easter to all,
- LJ
Author of UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD
All Author and Publisher's profits go to help the poor from sales of this Historical Novel

This is another major break through for additional scientific proof that the Shroud of Turin is 2,000 years old. Yet as of today, no major media outlet has covered the story in detail, because they are in fear of ending any controversy that fuels their money making news reels and specials.

First and foremost are the facts:

• The small face cloth in Spain, known as the Sudarium of Oviedo, covered the same face on the Shroud of Turin.
• The blood and sweat stains, along with the patterns and shapes match with pin-point computer accuracy on both the Sudarium and Shroud. Even the blood flow is the same.
• The Sudarium has proof of existence dating back to the 4th century Jerusalem.
• The use for a Sudarium was to cover the face, thus is in line with 1st century Jewish traditions.
• The blood on the Sudarium and the Shroud is of the same male AB blood type. The rarest blood type of them all in the 1st century.

​Now in 2016 we have a new discovery of pollen on the Sudarium and dried within the blood! The meaning to this is powerful.

The research group at the Catholic University of Murcia / Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), was studying the Sudarium cloth of Oviedo. The research used an innovative scanning electron microscope. UCAM's president, José Luis Mendoza, said the university acquired the microscope to investigate further the relic known as the Sudarium of Oviedo.

​As the study progressed, they discovered a grain of pollen from one plant that is also identified on the Holy Shroud of Turin. Las Provincias, a Valencia newspaper covering this story, restated already known facts such as the pollen is from the plant called Helicrysum that grew in 1st century Jerusalem. This plant was used in Jewish and early Christian burials.

However, the significances is that the grain of pollen is not just within the cloth fibers, but secured within dried blood. This proves that the pollen on the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium was not a later-in-time addition or contamination. Since the pollen is adhered to the blood; that means the pollen was on the cloth at the same time the blood was flowing and before the blood dried.

- LJ
Author of UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD
All Author and Publisher's profits go to help the poor from sales of this Historical Novel

I know when our eyes are open, we are surrounded by images every second of every day. I also know many computer experts, artist, and forensic scientists, have collaborated to create an image showing what Jesus may actually look like from the data collected as per the Shroud of Turin. This shroud was Jesus' burial cloth and on the first micro layer of fibers is a complete body image front and back showing the full passion. After four decades of scientific study no science can explain how the image was made. These are not bold statements. The scientific facts prove the Shroud is 2,000 years old and authentic. The media version that portrays constant controversy is just to make a profit on an amazing story that they hope to keep as a mystery forever. Thus obtaining more ratings, readers, and profits. If they did their job completely, the truth would be told and their job would be done. So this blog post and video must NOT go Viral, for the message is NOT a virus. This must Propagate! Propagate, so the culture of anthropocentrism will stop.

From the few scientifically Shroud based created images showing what Jesus looks like, I see this image as the strongest. Placed into a video that you should share with all you know and love. Perhaps the image should be shown around the world as the video suggests.
The eyes are so telling...

- LJ
Author of UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD
Author and Publisher's profits go to help the poor from sales of this Historical Novel.

The Youtube video is below and the LINK to share is: ​https://youtu.be/u0gVyEX-PkE

First we have a cloth made of linen in a city called Turin. Then we have the media keeping a misleading controversy going just to make money. Lastly we have pretentious scientists, artists and self proclaimed experts stating they have the answer just for 15 minutes of fame. Fame in a media that loves to keep the controversy alive and making money.

The Shroud has been on display in Turin now for several weeks. People from all walks of life and religions have lined up to look upon this cloth for three minutes or so. In addition, the Shroud of Turin is the most studied artifact in the history of humankind. The bottom line: all unpretentious scientists know all the facts that prove this linen cloth is 2,000 years old.

For example, the 1988 Carbon dating test now faces data showing the sample tested was a repair patch done in the middle ages on the edge. Cotton was within the sample, while the main body of the cloth is linen. So the Carbon dating test results were correct, but the sample tested was wrong. Nevertheless most of the media stays away from presenting these facts in fear that their money making Shroud controversy will come to an end.

Even Barrie Schwortz, who is an orthodox Jew and the lead scientific photographer with the STURP team that researched the Shroud in 1978, now defends all the facts that show the Shroud is authentic.

In addition, modern science has not be able to reproduce the image with all the parameters, details, or the same level of resolution. They are unable to do so with modern technology nor with the best technology of the middle ages. Science may someday come to terms and give an explanation to how the image formed on the Shroud, but as of now they are incapable. For those who do not like the word incapable in the world of science, realize this: Until scientists, who are people, present an answer that they currently don't have, then yes, they are incapable. Science doesn't have an answer, because scientists are incapable of providing one. Yet, for unpretentious scientists like myself, we do not fear using the one word answer that does explain the image. That word is resurrection.

- LJ
Author of UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD
Author and Publisher's profits go to help the poor from sales of this Historical Novel.

We tend to separate ourselves from specific details of any tragedy. That information is always the most difficult to block out and always truly upsetting. Nevertheless, we have a part of the entertainment media that strives to shock those, who will watch, with new versions of visual suffering. The end results create a desensitized audience, thus constantly requiring new ways to present visual shock. However, they too will leave out details that everyone would relate with, in fear of those details turning the most devoted fan.

The majority of us do the same with Jesus' crucifixion, we avoid the details because they prove how callous evil is in reality. Thus, to understand what Jesus did for us, is to learn the details. From the research of Dr. Pierre Barbet, Dr. Frederick Thomas Zugibe, and scientific teams that examined the Shroud of Turin, the following provides details on what Jesus endured just with the cap (crown) of thorns.

Medical experiments by Dr. Zugibe and the image on the shroud, shows the pattern of blood flow attesting to a cap and not a crown of thorns previously depicted in movies. The medical details of what this cap of thorns would do to anyone are appalling and only one person was given this cap or crown by the Romans to signify the king of Jews. His name is Jesus.

On the shroud there are sections along the head showing blood flow and the hair is saturated with dried blood. This will cause the hair to remain flat to the face on both sides. As for enduring the effects, that seems impossible:

When a Roman soldier struck Jesus with a reed, hand or any object, excruciating pain would have traveled across His face, into His ears and through His forehead. Yet, even feeling a breeze upon His face would initiate severe pain.

The perception of pain in the head region comes from two major nerves. The trigeminal nerve for the front half of the head and the occipital, which is for the back half of the head. The trigeminal nerve passes through the face, including the eyes, jaw, lips, nose, cheeks, and tongue. The extremely painful condition called trigeminal neuralgia would be activated by the thorns and triggered by any slight touch, movement of the jaw, speaking or swallowing. Even temperature changes would create a stabbing pain radiating around the eyes, across the forehead, into the lips, nose, cheeks and tongue. This is agonizing pain and reported to be the worst anyone can endure. Jesus had this pain as he walked all the way to Calvary and until he died on the Cross.

All this would have created a state for traumatic and hypovolemic shock as He bled profusely. Along with feeling unsteady, short of breath, feelings of vomiting, Jesus collapsed under the weight of a patibulum, the horizontal part of the cross. This caused additional pain and paralysis of the right arm as I wrote about in my July 20, 2014 blog called: Suffered Ad Infinitum Until Death

- LJ
Author of UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD
Author and Publisher's profits go to help the poor from sales of this Historical Novel.