There is no image under the Shroud, which means the blood came first, Good Friday the image came second, Easter Sunday, and it was so faint it could not penetrate through the Shroud,” he said. Because the bloodstains are anatomically correct, one would have had to make the image first and rubbed or painted the pigment within the drawing.
There is no image underneath the Shroud, explained Mr Bertrand. Some of hypotheses that claimed the Shroud was made by an artist have been discarded. Those are the foci of the research today,” he said.
“The overwhelming number of scientists has moved on to find, first, how was the image formed and, second, some historical gaps. Mr Bertrand said out of 42 papers presented in the 2014 Shroud conference, only one challenged the authenticity of the Shroud. Blood and serum have separated,” explained Mr Bertrand. “Blood and serum was from a person who has been dead for at least half an hour to eight hours. Research on the Shroud also proved the death of Jesus. It showed the wounds from the crown of thorns, the scourge marks on the chest, abrasions across the top of the shoulders from carrying the cross as well as the wounds from the nails on the hands and feet. Mr Bertrand said the Shroud attested to the Passion of Christ. That study, however, was later debunked by chemist Ray Rogers who found that the piece tested by the Oxford scientists was contaminated. In April 1988 radiocarbon testing by three Oxford scientists concluded that the Shroud was probably from 1290 to 1390 and thus a fake. With remarkable resemblance to the image in the Shroud) the bloodstains that correspond to Jesus’ injuries as told by the Gospels dirt found in the Shroud around the nose, feet and soles of the image in the Shroud. These include: botanical evidence (pollen grains that place the Shroud in Jerusalem) historical evidence (icons and other art dating as early as AD550 that portrayed Jesus Mr Bertrand said there is enormous evidence that points to the authenticity of the Shroud. “I took that as a positive sign that God wanted me to hear what was going on, so I can do this,” he said. I was leaving the parking lot when it hit me that I understood every word they said,” Mr Bertrand said.Īfter the conference, he was invited by the Turin Shroud Centre of Colorado, run by Dr Jackson, to make presentations on the Shroud. “But when I went to this Shroud conference in 2014, I saw all these presentations 14 hours a day speakers from Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, people with very strong accents. He has been wearing a hearing aid since he was 24. His hearing was impaired from working around loud construction machinery to pay for his college tuition. One of the things that convinced him that he was being called to present the Shroud to people was the fact that he couldn’t hear very well. We wanted to train people in each diocese to do what I’m doing,” he said. “This was a pilot programme for all the dioceses of America. The task of presenting and explaining the findings on the Shroud came later in 2014. We became friends for the last 20 years,” said Mr Bertrand. “I invited him to come to my parish to do a presentation. To this day, data gathered by STURP is used to study the Shroud. Mr Bertrand said he first became interested in the Shroud when he read about Dr John Jackson’s findings in National Geographic in 1980.ĭr Jackson headed the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), an unprecedented five-day extensive study of the Shroud by a team of international experts in October 1978. Mr Bertrand, a student of and presenter about the Shroud for the past 30 years, spoke to attendees at the Auckland Eucharistic Convention at the AMI Netball Centre in Takapuna on April 3. Shroud presenter James Bertrand gave Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn a copy of the Shroud of Turin Research Project report.
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