Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.21 Polish physician, expert in human anatomy and surgeon (at the age of 36 he obtained his doctorate in medical sciences), syndonologist combining prewar and postwar traditions. He began to develop his interest in the Turin Shroud as a young doctor with a Read more…
Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.4 Born in Wołomin, a graduate of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (MSc), a forester in Białystok forests, then a custodian of the Natural Forestry Museum of the Świętokrzyski National Park in Święty Krzyż (from 1969), an associate of the Centre of Read more…
Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.3 Polish Catholic priest, theologian, biblical scholar, graduate of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, lecturer and assistant professor at the Pontifical Academy of Theology (now the Pontifical John Paul II University in Krakow), multiple dean of the Read more…
Zbigniew Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.5.5 The image from the Shroud of Christ is linked to the image from the apparitions of St Faustina Kowalska in two ways. One is the visual similarities and the other is the overlap of certain theological themes. These two types of relationship result Read more…
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…
Karolina Aszyk-Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland Zbigniew Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.13.2 At the end of the 1970s, the American sindonologist John P. Jackson posited that the Shroud of Turin clearly influenced the origin of many representations of Christ, especially those deriving from the Imago Pietatis canon (Latin for Read more…
Mariusz Kiełbasa Polish Syndonological Centre, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.10 Was established in 2017 as a Delegation of the International Centre of Sindonology (ICS) in Turin on the initiative of Dr Gian Maria Zaccone, its director at the time, and in collaboration with Fr Mariusz Kiełbasa LC. The aim of the Centre Read more…