Dallas, TX – The Dallas International Shroud of Turin Conference, a scientific conclave for presenting peer reviewed research papers on what is thought to be the 2,000-year old burial cloth of the historic Jesus, was held in Dallas, September 8-11 at the Adolphus Hotel.

    The Dallas conclave of scientists and scholars shed new light on the age old question of whether the image on the Shroud is a visible projection of Christ’s resurrection as some believers claim, or a clever medieval fake that has long hoaxed believers.

    The conference, which is held every few years and features about 30 presenters in many disciplines, is sponsored by three internationally known Shroud organizations.  They include the 400-year old CENTRO shroud organization headquartered in Turin, Italy; the 50-year old Holy Shroud Guild based in Esopus, New York; and the American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR) a scientific organization located in Dallas, which is also the local coordinating organization for the conference.

    “The Turin Catholic Church authorities, who are the papal custodians of the Shroud, will for the first time attend and participate in an international conference outside of Turin,” says Michael Minor, AMSTAR vice-president and Dallas conference coordinator.

    “The Dallas Conference is the first international Shroud conference which is open to the general public,” according to AMSTAR president Tom D’Muhala, who during one of the evening conference sessions will also be reading selected papers of absent presenters.

    Monsignor Gieuseppe Ghiberti, advisor and spokesperson for Shroud matters to His Eminence Severino Cardinal Poletto, Papal Custodian of the Holy Shroud at Turin, will head the delegation of Turin officials who will attend and participate in the conference.  Among the other Turin authorities who will attend and present papers are Professor Bruno Barberis, Professor Baima Bollone, Dr. Gian-Maria Zaccone, Professor Nello Ballossino and Susie Phillips.  Other members of the Cardinal’s Commission on the Shroud who will participate include Professor Karlheinz Dietz of Germany and Dr. Mechthild Flury-Lemberg of Austria.

    Another speaker of note is U.S. presenter Dame Isabel Piczek, particle physicist and monumental artist, who will present a major paper detailing new discoveries found on the Shroud.

    “It’s important to note that papers will not only be presented in the hard sciences of chemistry, physics and medicine,” explains D’Muhala, “but also in other fields including art history, theology, biblical history, archaeology, Byzantine history, and textile history.  It will be a broad scientific and historical look at the Shroud, appealing to both the scientific community and the general public.”

    In recent years, the Shroud of Turin has aroused the interest of the scientific community, and some of the world’s premiere scientists have studied how the full body image was formed on the Shroud.  Christendom’s most important historical artifact has also become the most extensively studied object on the planet by space age scientists.  Many Christians believe the image is that of Christ and was formed at the very moment Christ was resurrected, and may be a “photograph of the resurrection.”

    Earlier this year AMSTAR announced that peer reviewed research by the late Raymond N. Rogers, a retired chemist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, strongly indicates the 1988 carbon 14 test on a sample taken from the Turin Shroud claiming the Shroud dated from approximately 1350 AD, was in error because the tested sample was actually taken from a patched and rewoven area.  The significance of Rogers’ research is that it indicates the Shroud could actually date from the time of Jesus.  Rogers’ paper will also be read at the conference.

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