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.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…
Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.18 American historian of Italian descent (his father emigrated from Sicily at the age of 16). He studied history at Ignatius Loyola University in Chicago, where he obtained his doctorate. He worked as a history teacher successively at Loyola College in Montreal, Rosary Read more…
Joanna Małocha Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.5 (Old Greek: ̕Ἔδεσσα, Syriac: Urhay)—a city in south-eastern Turkey; today (since 1984) it is known by its Turkish name Sanlıurfa (Glorious Urfa). Legend has it that Edessa is the first city to be founded after the biblical Flood, while 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.13.1 The name mandylion (Old Greek: μανδύλιον—‘towel, handkerchief, tablecloth’) refers to one of the oldest painting canons in Christian iconography. This is also how the well-known object, which is referred to as the Mandylion of Edessa due to Read more…
Zbigniew Treppa University of Gdansk, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.13 In Christian iconography, there are various canons of depicting the image of Christ. It was not until the late 1930s that the origins of the images of Christ began to be scientifically clarified. In 1902, the French scholar Paul Vignon, in his work 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…
Marcin Grala Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.8 Determining when exactly the Shroud became the property of the Dukes of Savoy and Piedmont poses difficulties. Margaret de Charny, the previous possessor of the relics, had been seeking to transfer the linen into the right hands since the Read more…
Marcin Grala Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.7 Ian Wilson called the period from the sacking of Constantinople by participants in the Fourth Crusade till the mid-14th century the missing years. Attempts to clarify the fate of the relic hitherto venerated in the Byzantine capital (→The Shroud Read more…