Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.22 Polish biblical scholar, member of the Association of Polish Biblical Scholars, populariser of theology, author of religious books, publicist, sindonologist. His first syndonological publications appeared in the first half of the 1970s. He became interested in the Turin Shroud during an extended 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…
Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.2.2 The Shroud of Turin Research Project is the name given to the comprehensive, primarily physico-chemical, study of the Shroud of Turin carried out by dozens of American scientists who obtained permission from the Shroud’s owner (former King Humberto II of Italy) and Read more…
Zbigniew Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.11 The Shroud of Turin, perhaps identical to the burial cloth described by the Evangelists (→The Shroud of Jesus in the New Testament), has a very rich message in the form of signs. This is why semiotic and semiological analyses of it are carried 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…
Krzysztof Sadło Polish Syndonological Centre, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.9.3 The first pope to comment on the Shroud was Antipope Clement VII. He did so several times in the second half of the 14th century, i.e. at the time of the Western Schism (the obedience of Avignon) in the form of bulls Read more…
Krzysztof Sadło Polish Syndonological Centre, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.9 The Shroud owes its appellation “of Turin” to the fact that it has been kept and exhibited in Turin since 1578. It found its way there itself there mainly due to the will of its owners—the Savoia family (the House of Savoy)—who Read more…