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Called Them What They Are: Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ's, Burial Shroud and Face Cloth

1/28/2023

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The year was 1902. The first major scientific study on the Shroud of Turin was completed. This scientific study was provoked by Secondo Pia's first ever photograph taken of the Shroud in 1898. Pia reported that he almost dropped and broke the photographic plate in the darkroom from the shock of what appeared: a positive image of a man and a face in a detail that could not be seen with the naked eye. Pia immediately had to endure ridicule and false accusations that he forged the photograph.

Then in April of 1902, the team of Paul Vignon and Yves Delage, an agnostic, submitted their paper on the Shroud of Turin for approval at the Institute of France, Sessions of the Academy of Science for publication.
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 The paper presented in session had detailed step-by-step research and experiments by Vignon and his colleagues, which Delage had overseen and approved. Science had demonstrated that the Shroud was not some painting or other kind of forgery. At the end, Delage pronounced these words:
 
“Tradition, more or less apocryphal, I would say – tells us that this is precisely what happened to Christ; dead on Friday and – disappeared – on Sunday. The Man of the Shroud,” the agnostic stated solemnly, “was the Christ.”

The secretary for the Physics sciences of this day’s session was Marcelin Berthelot. He was not going to allow applause from the audience to resound in the dome of the Institute with the name of Christ. Berthelot was the renowned inventor of thermos-chemistry and one of the founders of organic synthesis. He was a member of the Academie Francaise and Grand-Croix of the Legion d’Honneur. He was a positivist and militant atheist.
 
Censorship and sanctions would be the rule of the evening. Against all precedent, Berthelot notified Delage to take back his text, telling him to rewrite his paper with use of words to speak only of vaporography of Zinc, without making the least allusion to the Holy Shroud, certainly none to Christ.
 
Science was betrayed in 1902, the first of many times for the Shroud of Turin, and each time because of some men’s inability to accept both faith and reason together. A fear to accept God and then be accountable for themselves.
 
Take a moment in time now to put this into perspective. Considering this, is not to judge, only to consider for our own lives…
 
If Berthelot allowed the paper to be published as originally written, perhaps the world would have become consumed with more and more studies. True journalists of the day would have spread stories and photographs around the world. At that time, photographs were still new to the world as they slowly became more readily available and a photograph did not fail to amaze. The world was yet to be inundated with images like we are today and if more photographs were taken and circulated about Jesus’ Shroud, each one would have been a catalyst. Scientists would have become engaged, governments atoned, people would have rejoiced. World War One may have never happened. No chemical and gas weapons deployed. No indoctrination of a young Hitler, no World War Two.
 
Today, the failures of science continue, governments move toward totalitarianism, and a true Journalist is impossible to find. One must ask why we have not seen headlines across the world about the fingerprints on the bottom soles of Jesus’ feet. Monsignor Ricci’s discovery and research shows what is easily overlooked. Hands of whom grasped Jesus’ feet tightly in order to lower Him off the cross and carry Him to the tomb? Are these the fingerprints of John, the youngest and only apostle at the foot of the cross. Perhaps Joseph of Arimathea or Nicodemus. Do we dare think of the Roman Centurion, Longinus? That would have been unprecedented! Lastly and just as possible, one of the women that stayed with Mary, Jesus’ Mother. Even Jesus’ Mother herself must be considered.

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On Left is Overlay, On Right Shows Positions of Fingers
What person in the middle ages would think to make a forgery showing fingerprints, that need magnification to see them, on the soles of Jesus’ feet? Fingerprints visible under magnification were incorporated into the world of science in 1870 when Alphonse Bertillon, a French anthropologist, presented his work.
 
Where were the cries for peace and good will to humankind when the results from new Carbon dating tests came back stating the Shroud was 2,000 years old? Perhaps there was only a whisper because there was no popular media coverage of the test done in March of 2013 at the University of Padua in northern Italy. They used the same fibers from the 1988 Carbon dating tests and the results dispute the 1988 findings. The new examination dates the shroud to between 300 BC and 400 AD, which would put it in the era of Christ. Reasons for the different results were discovered because only linen fibers were used in the test. The cotton fibers that were woven into the same sample material were not used. The entire Shroud is made of Linen and cotton was used in this sample section because it was a repaired patch attached in the time frame presented by the original carbon dating test. The results in 1988 were again betraying science. Only one sample area was used, when 7 different samples should have been taken.
 
To this day, failed science continues as shown with virtually no media coverage of the new dating test done with X-Rays (called WAXs) in 2022. Results show the Shroud is 2,000 years old.
 
The facts continue to prove the Shroud of Turin is Jesus’ burial cloth and all theories to the opposite have been proven false. On and on all proof says yes, while none has been substantiated to prove against. Yet, humankind is still in the grip of not calling these cloths what they truly are. Thus, becoming the articles never written, the stories never read, the movies never made, the hands that never shook, the arms that never hugged, the peace never found, the joy never explored, the hope never shared, the faith forgotten, the truth stifled, and total love ignored.

- LJ
Author of UPPER ROOM, THE WAY: 33AD to 57AD
Author and Publisher's profits go to help charities from sales of this Historical Novel.
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Rethink St. Patrick's Feast Day

3/17/2020

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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.

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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

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Pseudoscience

9/11/2018

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The average person depends on one or two outside elements for information and news. That alone is a problem if a person wants to find the truth. Multiple sources must be investigated and used in order to come to a correct conclusion.

Whenever I hear a story or news, I immediately evaluate the source and seek-out all other sources of data on the subject. I avoid early morning gossip shows that scream their narrative without facts and I read peered reviewed studies and reports. I check out the FULL interview or FULL video online, not the edited version. I always confirm with other entities and in other words, I do my homework. Even after that, when I speak on a subject, I try to avoid speaking as if I am first hand data. I give credit to where credit is due. Science evaluates all the facts to find the truth. That is the way, for science. Real science says, "I don't Know" and waits to speak until we do. Additionally, real science avoids predictions. If not, we shall only get, pseudoscience. Sadly, this has become our world today when the viewer is lazy and the presenter is greedy.

However sometimes after all the objective data is reviewed and proof is provided for all questions, except one, there may only be one conclusion left. This is the case with the Shroud of Turin. For those who say the 1988 carbon dating test proved the Shroud to be a fake, all I can say is, do your homework. The Shroud of Turin is the most scientifically studied icon in the history of the world. W
hen you evaluate all the STURP team reports, additional studies, layout all the facts, read peered reviewed articles and tests done by unpretentious scientists from around the world for over 40 years, we know from hundreds of facts that the Shroud of Turin is 2,000 years old and the carbon dating test was done on the repaired edge of the shroud.

The Shroud is made of 100% linen, but the one sample on the edge for the carbon dating test has cotton woven within, a repair done at the time dated by the carbon test. So the carbon test was right, but wrong. Also note, as per Jewish law, cotton was forbidden in a Shroud.


So science shows the Shroud is 2,000 years old, but will not have a DNA test to prove the Shroud of Turin covered Jesus. Therefore we are left to answer with logic, thus leaving us with a subjective solution. You can believe the Shroud covered the Historical Jesus or Jesus the Christ.

However, if you believe the Shroud covered the historical Jesus, then you still have one more open question. How was the image made on the cloth?


If you believe the Shroud covered Jesus the Christ, then you know the answer to the previous question. An answer inline with the only scientific theories and evidence left to answer that question. The answer is one word. Resurrection.

- 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

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Jesus, Movies & Carbon

3/22/2016

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​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

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New book called THE SIGN is correct and then wrong

5/17/2012

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Mr. Wesselow, an art historian, has a book called THE SIGN stating that the Shroud of Turin is real, but the resurrection did not occur. Instead, viewing just the image on the Shroud became the new catalyst for followers to go out and face the penalty of death by declaring Jesus the Son of God.

Mr. Wesselow is correct by stating the Shroud of Turin is 2,000 years old and authentic. Science has proven that. However, he is in error with his assumption that only the image on the Shroud caused Jesus' followers to go out onto the streets of Jerusalem and proclaim a statement that Jesus had risen from the dead. The study of human nature shows people will need a great deal more than an image on a cloth to risk their own death. This reason stands true because there wasn't a single thing to gain for any follower to go out and proclaim Jesus had risen from the dead. A claim like that would only get them thrown in jail or killed and at the same time cause the destruction of the Shroud that held the very image.

With Mr. Wesselow's belief that the Shroud traveled to Damascus and then to the city of Edessa, has serious issues. Also claiming that Saul saw the Shroud's image in Damascus and became a believer because of that viewing, doesn't fit Saul's attributes at the time. Saul would have arrested any follower of Jesus upon sight and destroyed the Shroud before any viewing or cognizant thought. Another error is in the timeline, the Shroud would have already been in Edessa for some time before Saul went to Damascus. Saul became Paul because he saw Jesus as a transformation or spirit, thus matching Paul descriptions exactly. Paul never described seeing Jesus as something on a cloth or shroud. The fact that the Shroud still exists today proves the cloth was never shown in public and thus never placed at risk of being destroyed.

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Next we have the theory on the Shroud being created by decomposition gases and all the scientific facts below:
a) The image on the shroud shows no signs of decomposition on the body. The eye sockets that decay immediately, (they sink and collapse inward) are normal in the image. An image made 3 days after they nailed Jesus to a tree.
b) How do you explain the report about the partial image on the other side of the shroud that is in registration with the face we all have seen on the front?
c) If a second image (partial or complete) is confirmed to be on the backside of the Shroud, Physics explains how gases from decomposition work. Recreating the details of the cloth and a decaying body has been done, the gases that rise will stain an image on the side of the cloth facing the body. However, Physics proves that gases do not rise through a cloth and not leave any additional stains on the inner threads (such as on the Shroud), then come out the other side, stop, and float back down again to stain an image on the opposite side of the cloth! This is impossible. One current claim is that there are two exact images on the Shroud in perfect registration and only on the first microfibers of the first threads on each side!
d) Recreating the cloth, conditions of the tomb, and death of a body, does stain an image. However, the image created lacks many qualities found on the Shroud of Turin and is not a true replication.

Also, how do you explain away reports that Jesus appeared to people a day's journey apart and almost at the same time?

Then there is the question about what happened to the body? Neither the Romans or the High Priest produced any data to explain why Jesus' body was gone.

If you are going to research something, research all the science, not just the art history! Don't write a book about Jesus just to make money and attention, I didn't... I don't keep any royalties received from my novel and I have stated previously that this is not about me... you don't need to know me, you need to know Jesus.
Peace be with you.

- 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.
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