Robert Rucker - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:47:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Robert Rucker - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Nuclear engineer says latest research confirms first-century date of Shroud of Turin https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/09/30/nuclear-engineer-says-latest-research-confirms-first-century-date-of-shroud-of-turin/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:50:11 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=176312 For centuries, Christians have attributed the Shroud of Turin a first-century date. Nuclear engineer Robert Rucker says his latest research on the shroud verifies that. "The Shroud of Turin is the second-most valuable possession of the human race next to the Bible itself," Rucker told CNA. The shroud is currently preserved in the Chapel of Read more

Nuclear engineer says latest research confirms first-century date of Shroud of Turin... Read more]]> For centuries, Christians have attributed the Shroud of Turin a first-century date. Nuclear engineer Robert Rucker says his latest research on the shroud verifies that.

"The Shroud of Turin is the second-most valuable possession of the human race next to the Bible itself," Rucker told CNA. The shroud is currently preserved in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud adjacent to St John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin (Torino), Italy.

For more than 10 years, Rucker has studied the physics of the disappearance of the body of Jesus and its imprint on the shroud. His website, Shroud Research, challenges conclusions that the shroud dates to the period of 1260 to 1380 AD, leading sceptics to conclude it is a medieval fake.

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