![]() Orlando, for his part, demurred when asked about the film’s conclusions, preferring to let viewers watch his investigative journey unfold. He subscribes to the theory that “low-temperature spontaneous nuclear degeneration” of every cell in the crucified man’s body created an incredibly intense burst of radiation that left behind physical evidence of the Resurrection. “So, it has to be much older,” Spitzer reasoned.īased on his research over the years, Spitzer is convinced of the shroud’s authenticity. ![]() Courtesy of Nexus MediaĪnother compelling finding is that most of the pollen fossils left on the shroud come from northern Judea, not France or other places where the cloth is known to have been over the past 700 years. A scene from the documentary "The Shroud: Face to Face," by filmmaker and author Robert Orlando, which intersperses expert interviews with dramatic recreations and edgy visual effects. This would explain why Roman soldiers would have forced a bystander like Simon of Cyrene to help carry Jesus’ cross, he noted. Since then, it has been proved that the edges of the Shroud are not original (the Shroud is linen from Egypt), but was a 13th century reweave (done in the french style) using cotton. Recent scientific discoveries discussed in the film include the finding that the man on the shroud suffered head wounds caused by a “helmet” of thorns, something a medieval forger isn’t likely to have imagined, since the Gospels refer only to a “crown of thorns.”Īlso, the man’s right shoulder is lower than his left, which Spitzer says is consistent with a shoulder dislocation, likely from a fall. Most people think that the Shroud of Turin was proved a forgery back in the early 1980s, when testing was done on the edge of the Shroud and found to come from the 13th century. Off to WYD: Maryland family of 10 heads to Lisbon for special pilgrimage Read article ![]() “It’s more than a documentary in the sense that it engages everything: the aesthetic sense, the excitement of the investigation, the multimedia, all the senses,” Spitzer said of the film. Spitzer is the institute’s president and co-founder. On Friday night, July 28, Spitzer joined Orlando for a 15-minute sneak peek of the film followed by a question-and-answer session during the Napa Institute’s annual summer conference in Napa, California. ![]() Spitzer, SJ, the Jesuit scholar, author, and popular EWTN television host. The film features interviews with experts from both sides of the debate, including American historian and Princeton Theological Seminary professor Dale Allison, Cheryl White of the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, and Mark Goodacre, television director, New Testament scholar, and professor at Duke University’s Department of Religion.įather Andrew Dalton, LC, STD, professor of theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, who wrote the foreword for Orlando’s book, also appears in the film, as does Father Robert J. Orlando, who has written a book by the same title, frames his subject as a contemporary “true crime” investigation, employing recreated scenes and edgy visual effects to give the film an artsy vibe. ![]()
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