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Category: Shroud of Turin

  • Conversation with an Athiest

    During the Covid lock-down, I began a campaign to have billboards with The Holy Face on a plain background, just to let people know that Jesus is still here. I recently received an email from “Your Friendly Neighborhood Atheist”  who commented as follows: I’m not trying to disparage your faith, but a) you know the…

  • A Study In Righteousness

        As we look at His Holy Face, we see the face of a man that was beaten, reviled, spit upon.  His beard and moustache were plucked, His nose broken.  His scalp was bleeding from the crown of thorns. And yet… ..His face is serene, calm, even regal.  He did not complain, cry out…

  • Zygophyllum Dumosum

    Zygophyllum Dumosum Bean Caper Plant “The physical location of the bouquet containing Zygophyllum dumosum appears on the body image’s upper chest (Figure 6, 10). Here, two young but well-developed succulent leaves are visualized. Each leaf has a terete petiole and a pair of flat leaflets (Figures 10 to 12). Such leaves, in the Near Eastern flora, are…

  • Gundelia Tournefortii

    Gundelia Tournefortii Tumble Thistle   Of the twenty-eight plants, twenty-seven grow within the close vicinity of Jerusalem, where four geographical areas containing different specific climates and flora can be found. (The twenty-eighth plant grows at the south end of the Dead Sea.) All twenty-eight would have been available in Jerusalem markets in a fresh state, and…

  • Cistus Creticus

    Cistus Creticus Rock Rose This assemblage of Z. dumosum and additional species such as Gundelia tournefortii, Cistus creticus, and Capparis aegyptia occurs in only one rather small spot on earth, this being the Judean mountains and the Judean Desert of Israel, in the vicinity of Jerusalem … The distributional areas of the most significant species are used here to determine the proposed place…

  • Capparis Aegyptia

    Capparis Aegyptia Egyptian Caper “Interestingly, one of the floral species on the Shroud that grows in Jerusalem and blooms in the Spring, Capparis aegyptia, provides further corroborating information of the events depicted on the Shroud. Damn, Baruch, and Whanger state: `Capparis aegyptia is also significant as an indicator for the time of the day when its flowering stems…

  • Travertine Aragonite Limestone

    Travertine Aragonite Limestone Jerusalem Stone “Aragonite as in Jerusalem … The study of the area of the feet has been particularly interesting. In the greatly enlarged photographs, taken by Vernon Miller in 1978, one can see that the cloth looks dirty in the region corresponding to one of the heels. There, on the threads, is an…