Yesterday, Wednesday, August 21, 2024, I wrote:
Scientists Make Breakthrough Discovery After Analyzing Cloth ‘Jesus Was Buried In’
"An former Atheist who set out to prove the Shroud of Turin was fake has become Christian after encountering new evidence.
David Rolfe said he "cannot possibly understand anything else that could have produced that image" in reference to the picture of a blood-soaked imprint of a man matching Jesus Christ's description on cloth relic.
The filmmaker set out to make a documentary the Shroud of Turin, one of the most revered religious artifacts in history, and said he had intended to find a prosaic explanation.
But the photography expert, who is British, was so astonished with what he discovered, he's converted to Christianity. David spoke this week after more recent analysis of the artifact, using modern X-ray techniques once again placed the cloth's origin back to the time of Christ.
"I started off as an atheist, and then became an agnostic. And I'm now a Christian, because I cannot possibly understand anything else that could have produced that image," David said.
The 14-foot-long shroud features a faint, brownish image of a five-foot, six-inch tall man with sunken eyes, wounds on various parts of his body that match the injuries suffered during Jesus' crucifixion.
David has put up a $1 million (around £770,000) prize for anyone who can recreate the shroud's image of a crucified man without showing traces of ink, paint or other agents. Prominent research in the 1980s appeared to debunk the idea the shroud was used to wrap Jesus' body because testing dated it to the Middle Ages, long after Jesus' death, but new research suggests otherwise.
David, who recently released a new documentary called Who Can He Be?, continued: "I am convinced [the Shroud of Turin] is authentic, I personally have no doubt."
The man explained the 1980 research focused on a small corner of the shroud which had been repaired some time between 1200 and 1400 due to wear and tear. It was paraded by bishops throughout history during religious ceremonies in Turin, Italy, where it is housed. This meant the fabric tested was older the the rest of the material, explained the filmmaker. The shroud also does not show signs of ink or dye that would suggested it was a fake - no visible trace of any paint, ink, dye, stain or pigments.
"Contestants must match both the pattern of bloodstains seen on the Shroud of Turin, and the composition of blood, including hemoglobin, bilirubin, immunoglobulin, and albumin," according to the rules of the challenge.
"In addition, the largest blood stains should exhibit surrounding areas of ultraviolet fluorescence as noted on the Shroud. When light and shade are reversed as in a photographic negative, the image must appear as a realistic and anatomically accurate representation of a body.'
David told Mail Online no one in his native Britain had claimed the $1 million prize. He added: "No one has come forward either from America to claim it. Once they realise what the actual image characteristics are on the cloth, they quickly realise that they can't reproduce it.'
More than 170 peer-reviewed academic papers have been published about the mysterious linen since the 1980s, with many concluding it to be genuine. Who the cloth relic belonged to is another matter, however."
End of article...
"Who the cloth relic belonged to is another matter, however."
Of course, the secular press had to stick this in the article, right?
Pray that more atheists come to believe by this miracle left behind by Our Lord!
Pray too for strength and honor!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...
St. Joseph pray for us!!
Gene DeLalla
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