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Polish Syndonological Bibliography (1900–2020)

Prepared by Krzysztof Pilarczyk https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.V 1. Non-serial (printed) publications 1.1. Polish authors Alexiewicz Tomasz, Kozieł Stanisław: Rekolekcje z Całunem Turyńskim. Kontemplacja Całunu Turyńskiego, Poznań: Inicjatywa Wydawnicza “Jerozolima” Łukasz Kałużny, 2009, 79 pages. Aszyk Karolina, Treppa Zbigniew: The Manoppello Icon the prototype of images of Christi, Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2014, Read more…

The Sudarium of Oviedo

Miłosz Grygierczyk https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.5.3 (Spanish: El Sudario de Oviedo—literally, ‘the sweat cloth of Oviedo’)—also known as the Sudarium of Oviedo, the Veil of Oviedo—is a rectangular linen cloth kept in Oviedo, the capital of the Spanish region of Asturias. This cloth has approximate dimensions of 855 × 526 mm, a density Read more…

The Veil of Manoppello

Karolina Aszyk-Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland Zbigniew Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.5.1 Referred to nowadays as the Divine Face, Volto Santo, and earlier as the Veronica, Camulia Veil—is an object measuring 17.5 × 24 cm, woven from very thin threads, approximately 100 μm (0.1 mm) thick, with gaps between Read more…

Polish Syndonology

Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.4 Polish syndonology is that part of scientific research, started in Poland and among the Polish community at the beginning of the 20th century, which deals with the Shroud of Turin and the popularisation of knowledge about it. Until 1939 these were few, Read more…

Manoppello

Zbigniew Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.14 A small town in Italy, situated between the Gran Sasso and Maiella mountain ranges in the Abruzzo region, in the province of Pescara, where a relic identified with the object described by western iconographic tradition as Veronica has been kept since 1638 in Read more…

Blood on the Shroud

Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.3.1 The traces of blood on the Shroud of Turin, clearly visible to the naked eye and in photographs, have been studied from the very beginning. At first, scientists, having access only to photographs, compared the traces of blood with the descriptions of Read more…

Chemical Analyses of the Shroud

Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.3 The chemical studies were conducted to determine the chemical composition of the various ‘marks’ visible on the Shroud: body image, blood stains, water stains and burns. The research involved both the qualitative and quantitative determination of the content of various elements and Read more…

Determination of the Age of the Shroud

Wojciech Kucewicz AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.2.4 A separate problem that intrigues researchers is the age of the Shroud. Its documented history is known from 1356, when the crusader Geoffrey de Charny gave it to the canons in Read more…

Photographs of the Shroud

Wojciech Kucewicz AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.2.1 It can be assumed that scientific research of the Shroud began when the first photograph of it was taken, which was done on 28 May 1898 by the lawyer and amateur Read more…

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