International Congress for the
Study of the Shroud of Turin
"Science and the Shroud"

(The 1998 Turin Symposium)

June 5 through 7, 1998
Unione Industriale
Turin, Italy

The Third International Congress for the Study of the Shroud of Turin was held in Turin, Italy, on June 5 through June 7, 1998. The theme of the event was "Science and the Shroud" and it was sponsored by the Centro Internazionale di Sindonologia di Torino (International Center for Sindonology in Turin), an organization founded by Archbishop Cardinal Maurilio Fossati II on December 18, 1959. Professor P.L. Baima Bollone served as the President of the Organizing Committee.

The President of the Congress was Professor R. Bertolino and the Scientific Committee included Professors Alan Adler, Pierluigi Baima Bollone, Nello Balossino, Bruno Barberis, Karlheinz Dietz, Doctor Mechtild Flury-Lemberg, Professors Don Giuseppe Ghiberti, Pietro Kaswalder, Heinrich Pfeiffer, Doctor Daniel Raffard de Brienne, Professors Piero Savarino, Silvano Scannerini and Doctor Gian Maria Zaccone.

For a more detailed look at the event, read "The '98 Symposium: A Personal Report." It is my personal account of the symposium, its participants and its impact on the future of Shroud research. It gives you a look at the congress from the perspective of one who attended and presented a paper. I should warn you that it begins by casting a critical eye on the symposium and its organization. The opinions expressed are solely my own. It includes 6 color photographs.

The schedule included below is the original version distributed to the attendees of the symposium. The day and time that the papers were actually presented frequently varied from the schedule.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1998, 1730
EPISTEMOLOGICAL SESSIONS

Moderator: Prof. P. L. Baima Bollone

• CONSOLO, A. - Sulla statistica dei cultori della Sindone e della sua conservazione
• LAGRIFA, F. - Mathematical Probability Calculus Applied to the Study of Its Authenticity
• UPINSKY, A. - Le statut scientifique du Linceul de Turin: authentification officielle et decriptage
• PICARD - Fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime measurement of the Shroud of Turin

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1998, 0900
MEDICAL SESSIONS - ROOM 500

Moderator: Prof. P. L. Baima Bollone

• BELCET, FILIPPA-BORRONI-BONA, MANFREDI, S., MATTIO, R. - Riflessioni del chirurgo Sull ferita toracica
• CANALE, M. - Rilievi e considerazione sul DNA presente sulla Sindone
• CINQUEMANI, N., CICCHETTI, S. - Le dopple immagini sulle mani dell'Uomo della Sindone
• DELLESITE, G. - Cause fisiche della morte dell'uomo della Sindone: medicina e certezze
• FIORI, R. - Le lesioni da inchiodamento ai piedi dell'Uomo della Sindone
• GARZA-VALDES, L. - Wood Remnants in the Blood of the Occipital Region of the Man on the Shroud of Turin
• GUILLAUD-VALLEE, O. - SCEPI - Position en opposition du ponce chez l'homme du linceoul étude critique des travaux de Barbet
• HUISMAN, H. - The Holy Shroud of Turin - Injury of the right eye
• LAVOIE, G. - The Shroud of Turin - Among the blood marks is the image of an Upright Man
• MILANESIO, A. - Le lesioni da inchiodamento agli arti dell'Uomo della Sindone
• MINOR, M. - BUCKLIN, R. - First Century judicial murder or Medieval Icon?
• PIERUCCI, G. - Su alcune tecniche di microanalisi
• PUORRAT, O. - The localization of the chest wound on the right side: its importance as a tool for giving an indirect datation evidence of the Turin Shroud
• RODANTE, S. - Un lampo di luce alle soglie del terzo millennio - 65 diapositive
• SIGNORINI, R. - Alla ricerca della prova provata
• ZACA, S. - Collaborazione all relazione del Prof. P.L. Baima Bollone
• ZUGIBE, F. - The hand wound on the Shroud. Death by crucifixion on the Shroud

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1998, 0900
TRACE BIOLOGY SESSIONS - ROOM 200

Moderator: Prof. Scannerini

• DAYVAULT, P. - The Frei Collection digitalization project
• DANIN, A. -The Origin of the Shroud of Turin From the Near East as Evidenced by Plant Images And By Pollen Grains (Abstract only)
• DANIN, A. and BARUCH, U. - Floristic Indicators for the Origin of the Shroud of Turin (.pdf format) [25k] (Full paper) 
• DICKINSON, I. - New evidence for the Shroud of Jesus
• IACAZIO, P. - La qualità del microcontrollo tessile della Santa Sindone
• SIEGEL, J. - Local plant evidence supports authenticity of Shroud of Turin

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1998, 1100
INFORMATION SESSIONS - ROOM 500

Moderator: Prof. N. Balossino

• BELYAKOV, A. - On the origin of the image formation on the Turin Shroud
• BENE, G. - Suggestion en vue d'une étude détailleé du Linceul et de son support
• DE CECCO, M. - FANTI, G. - Papers are available in both Italian and English versions:
  Studio di un sistema di visione per la mappatura colorimetrica della Sindone di Torino (.pdf format) [192k]
  Study of a vision system for the colorimetric mapping of the Turin Shroud (.pdf format) [197k]
• FANTI, G. - MARINELLI, E. - Papers are available in both Italian and English versions:
  (1) - Un modello probabilistico per quantificare i risultati delle ricerche sulla Sindone di Torino (.pdf format) [63k]
  (1) - A probabilistic model to quantify the results of the research on the Turin Shroud (.pdf format) [68k]
  (2) - Risultati di un modello probabilistico applicato alle ricerche eseguite sulla Sindone di Torino (.pdf format) [172k]
  (2) - Results of a probabilistic model applied to the research carried out on the Turin Shroud (.pdf format) [165k]
  
• FANTI, G. - WINKLER, U. - Papers are available in both Italian and English versions:
  Analisi di fattibilità di indagini sul lino della Sindone di Torino mediante risonanza magnetica nucleare (.pdf format) [57k]
  A feasibility analysis of studies on linen from the Shroud of Turin using nuclear magnetic resonance (.pdf format) [54k]
• GUERRESCHI, A. - Il fotorilievo applicato alla Sindone
• HERAS, G. - VILLALAIN, D. - Papers are available in both Spanish and English versions:
  Estudio comparativo entre al Sudario de Oviedo y la Sindone de Turin (.pdf format) [78k]
  Comparitive Study of the Sudarium of Oviedo and the Shroud of Turin (.pdf format) [69k]
  
• IMBALZANO, G. - Duplicità del volto Sindonico - Link to text of this and other works by the author.
• MOURAVIEV, S. - Image formation mechanism on the Shroud of Turin: a solar reflex radiation model (the optical aspect)
• PROPP, K. - JACKSON, J. - Computer colour/Intensity analysis of the Shroud for conservation and research
• ROHSMANN, H. - Il lenzuolo funebre di Torino
• SCHWORTZ, B. - The Role of the Internet in the Future of Shroud Research
• SULLIVAN, B. - A critical analysis by application of logic
• VERNIERS, W. - Natural formation of the Shroud image
• WHANGER, M. - Radiation in the formation of the Shroud image: the evidence
• WHANGER, A. - Non-body objects imaged on the Shroud of Turin

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1998, 1100
CHEMISTRY SESSIONS - ROOM 200

Moderator: Prof. A. Adler

• ADLER, A. - Further spectroscopic investigations of the images on the Shroud of Turin
• LATTARULO, F. - How a seismoelectric effect can explain human image impressed on the Holy Shroud
• MACKRY AREVALO, A. - Y despues de la autenticidad. Que?
• MILLS, A. - The singlet oxygen hypothesis for the origin of the image
• MORAN, K. - Remote positioning system to examine the Shroud of Turin
• PICARD, G. - GALLINO, R. - Fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime measurements of the Shroud of Turin
• RINAUDO, J.B. - Modello protonico di formazione dell'immagine sulla Sindone di Torino

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1998, 1500
CONSERVATION SESSIONS - ROOM 500

Moderator: Prof. M. Flury-Lemberg

• DAYVAULT, P. - The Sanctuary of the Shroud: a Security Challenge
• MACADRE, C. - ROCHER, O. - Securité e conservation du Linceul de Turin
• PICZEK, I. - The Professional Arts and the Principle and Practice of Conservation - Restoration Versus the Turin Shroud
• VERCELLI, G. - La struttura tessile della Sindone

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1998, 1500
ART SESSIONS - ROOM 200

Moderator: Prof. H. Pfeiffer

• PFEIFFER, H. - La Sindone e l'arte
• COMPRI, GAETANO - Il Madilyon di Edessa nelle pitture di Cappadocia
• GIARDINA, ROSANNA - La Sindone: interpretazione pittorica con riferimenti biblici e di storia dell'arte
• GRISERI, CARLO - Rassegna fotografica delle immagini della Sindone nel cuneese
• MANFRIN, M. - Comunicazione
• PISOTTI, PAOLO - Cognizione dell'immagine della Sindone e i suoi riflessi sulla raffigurazione del Cristo nell'arte moderna
• SULLIVAN, B. - The Shroud of Turin: Was it the model for Claus Luter's "Head of Christ"?

SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1998, 0900
ARCHAEOLOGY SESSIONS - ROOM 500

Moderator: Prof. P. Kaswalder

• HAMON, P. - La soluzione archeologica dell'enigma o verso una nuova orientazione delle ricerche sulla generazione dell'immagine sul lenzuolo mortuario di Torino
• KISS, IREN - L'usanza di mettere monete sugli occhi
• MORGAN, REX - New discoveries linking the Turin Shroud and early Roman catacomb painting

SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1998, 0900
HISTORY SESSIONS - ROOM 200

Moderator: Dr. G.M. Zaccone

• DE BRIENNE, D. - Relazione storica
• CAPPI, M. - L'incendio di Chambery - Un monito per la scienza
• DE DOMPSURE, B. - L'image de Edesse est-elle le Linceul de Turin?
• FRAIKIN, J. - Geoffrey de Charny, un personnage énigmatique
• MARKWARDT, J. - The Fire and the Portrait
• SCAVONE, D. - Joseph of Arimathea and the Edessa icon: identifying the Holy Grail
• SCOTT BELDON, J. - Ostension of the Shroud. Architecture and ritual in Piazza Castello
• SEGLIE, D. - La Sindone a penerolo nel 1478 - Un aggiornamento a cento anni dagli studi di Stanislao Cordero di Pamparato
• SORGIA, R. - L'incendio di Chambery, un monito ed un ulteriore riprova dell'autenticità
• SWENNEN, R. - La preuve judiciaire appliqué au Sindone
• TABORI, L. - The Turin Shroud and the Partian Empire
• VAN HAELST, R. - The Shroud of Kornelimunster
• ZANINOTTO, G. - Poliformia e transfigurazione di Cristo. Una lettura antica della Sindone?

SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1998, 1100
RELIGION SESSIONS - ROOM 500

Moderator: Prof. K. Dietz

• BIANCO, L. - Sacra Scrittura e Sindone
• BISCEGLIA, G. - Sindone e catechesi - Exposizione di alcune verità della fede alla luce delle più recenti scoperte sindonologiche
• CUCCAROLLO, E. - La lettura spirituale della Sindone
• DI GIGLIO, A. - Ecco l'uomo... ascoltatelo
• DREISBACH, A. R. - The Shroud of Turin: Its Ecumenical Implications
• FALCINELLI, R. - Testimonianze sindniche a Chartres
• FERRER, A. - L'unione fra scienza e religione spiega l'enigma della Sacra Sindone
• LADU, T. - La Sindone e la liturgia mozarabica
• LETHEL, F.M. - La Santa Sindone come icona de Gesù sepolto: Aspetti dogmatici, teologici e spirituali
• LINDNER, E. - The Holy Shroud and the Resurrection
• LINGIARDI, E. - Il volto sindonico: svelarsi e nacondersi di Dio
• MINGRONE, G. - La Sindone: umanizzare Gesù per divinizzare il Cristo
• PASINO, P. - Comunicazione
• PERRIELLO, A. - Il mistero della Sindone
• PERIN, S. - La gente comune è scettica o perplessa circa l'autenticità della Sindone: problema di fede o di comunicazione mass mediale. (analisi epidemiologica tramite questionario)
• PHAM, J. - So what if it's a medieval forgery?
• QUATTRIN, S. - Gemma Galgani e la Sindone
• RIBAY, B. - Opsis et quelques autres vocables grecs de Jean 11,44 et Jean 20, 1-10 dans les oeuvres de Flavius Josèphe
• SORMANI ZODO, F. - Esperienze in tema di serate "Sindone"
• TAMIOZZO, G. - Sacra scrittura e Sindone
• ZECCA, T. - Comunicazione
• WIJFFELS, F. - The relation between St. John 20.6-7 and the water stains on the Turin Shroud

SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1998, 1100
DATATION SESSIONS - ROOM 200

Moderator: Prof. P. Savarino

• ALONSO, M. - Quelques doutes de nature scientifique sur la validité de la datation de 1988
• DE DIEGO, N. - Studio de la edad de la S. Sindone
• JACKSON, J. - PROPP, K. - New physics studies concerning the 1988 radiocarbon date
• JACKSON, R. - New evidence that the Shroud predates the radiocarbon date by many centuries
• MORONI, M. - BARBESINO, F. - BETTINELLI, M. - L'incendio di Chambery del 1532: experimenti di simulazione termica
• NOVELLI, G. - Analisi critica della datazione col metodo al radiocarbonio del tessuto della Sindone di Torino - Valutazione dei dati del 1988
• VAN OOSTERWYCK, M.C. - Le sainte Suaire et le radiocarbon
• VAN HAELST, R. - New light on the radiocarbon dating of the Shroud
• WILSON, I. - An appraisal of the mistakes made regarding the Shroud samples takin in 1988 - and a suggested way of putting these behind us