Tag: Image of Edessa

  • Shrouded in History:Twenty Evidences of the Shroud’s Ancient Provenance

    Shrouded in History:Twenty Evidences of the Shroud’s Ancient Provenance

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    Paul Bishop

    In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Dr.Joe Accetta who is a Shroud sceptic and who was on the STURP team of 1978 said that one of the four pillars of authenticity is some sort of chain of custody (provenance) as to where the Shroud has been for the last 2000 years. This is thought…

  • The Face of Jesus

    The Face of Jesus

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    Paul Bishop

    In the recent BSTS summer 2025 newsletter there is an excellent article by our very own numismatic expert Justin Robinson, Byzantine Gold – the two faces of Jesus. In it he looks at two gold solidus coins minted during the reign of Justinian II. The first coin minted between 692 – 695AD portrays a Shroud…