Miłosz Grygierczyk https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.15 A city in northern Spain, capital of the Principality of Asturias (Principado de Asturias), currently has a population of 216,600 (as of 2021). Founded in the 8th century, the city developed as a settlement around the monastery of St Vincent and later (from the late 15th century) Read more…
Bartłomiej Wołyniec Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.2 Saint of the Catholic Church (beatified in 1602, canonised in 1610), cardinal (from 1560), administrator (from 1560) and then archbishop metropolitan of Milan (from 1564), one of the main reformers of the Church in the spirit of the Council Read more…
Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.4 Sindonology deals not only with the Shroud of Turin, but also with the history of the shroud of Jesus in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and attempts to relate all this to the Shroud of Turin. The literary material featuring the topos Read more…
Roman Bogacz Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland Władysław Sinkiewicz Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.2 The account in the canonical gospels of Jesus’ trial, passion and death on the cross (Mattt 26:47–68; 27:1–2, 11–49; Mark 14:43–65, 15:1–37; Luke 22:39–53.63-65; 23:13–34.44–46; John 18:12–19, 37) presents the Read more…
Roman Bogacz Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.1 To describe the shroud as a burial cloth, the Evangelists used two terms: ἡ σινδών and τό ὀθόνιον. These are not precise. In Greek, the former means a thin linen or cotton cloth; also, a garment of such fabric, Read more…