Sindonological lexicon

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Sindonological lexicon. Polish perspective and contribution, ed. K. Pilarczyk, Z. Treppa, T. Graff, Eastern and Central European Voices. Supplements  – Volume 003, series ed.: R. Mazur, M. Rosik, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Paderborn 2025, ISBN: 978-3-525-57360-0, pp. 216 with 105 col. and 11 b/w fig., 150 EU.

Description
Sindonological research conducted for over a hundred years, focusing mainly on the Shroud of Turin, but also on the Sudarion of Oviedo, the Veil of Manoppello, the Tunica of Argenteuil and the Tilma of Guadalupe. Currently, in many places around the world there are research centers that deal with this issue. Undoubtedly, the leading role i non this respect is played by the International Sindonological Center in Turin. In 2017, American, Spanish and Italian centers were joined by a Polish one – the Polish Sindonological Center based in Krakow, which is a branch of the Turin center. In it matured the idea of developing a Sindonological Lexicon, which would summarize over a century of research achievements on the Shroud of Turin and other artifacts related to it. It was developed by a team of scientists affiliated to the following universities: the Jagiellonian University (Kraków), the AGH University of Science and Technology (Kraków), the Pontifical University of John Paul II (Kraków), the University of Gdańsk and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Members of the editorial board of the lexicon include members of the Polish Sindonology Centre, and Krzysztof Pilarczyk is the coordinator of the entire project and the editor of the electronic version of the lexicon.
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Foreword to English Edition

It is with great joy that we are presenting to our readers the next volume in the series Eastern and Central European Voices. Supplements. The publication concerns the Turin Shroud, which continues to be of great interest to both scholars and ordinary believers. This is evidenced by the occasional opportunities for its public display. The interest in the shroud also translates into the possibility of conducting scientific research at the level of available and appropriate exploration methods and technologies using the most advanced equipment and computer support.

The joy of the publication is mixed, however, with sadness due to the passing of the late Prof. Krzysztof Pilarczyk, editor of the book. It should be noted that his great desire was to publish The Sindonological Lexicon in the Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht publishing house in this particular series. It was Professor Pilarczyk who coordinated the entire work, striving for publication in both printed and electronic form in Polish and in English.

In the scientific and academic theological milieu, one can identify a number of institutions with a special interest in the study of the shroud. At the forefront of these is the center for such research in Turin, the site of the shroud’s safekeeping. In 2017, the group of these institutions was joined by the Polish Sindonological Center established on the initiative of the director of the Turin Center. It had its predecessor in an institute called Studium Syndonologiczne (the Sindonological Study Centre) founded in Krakow in 1981 by John Paul II.

The fruit of the activities of the Polish Sindonological Center is the publication, first in Polish, of the results of research in various scientific fields. The group of academic centers involved includes the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and the University of Gdansk. The group of the aforementioned Polish universities has also been joined over time by the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Each of these centers, through the participation of the scholars and scientists involved, has its practical share in research and publications, including this lexicon.

The lexicon presents the research on the shroud to date and its results, thus showing more than a century of scientific activity. The publication includes terminological entries related to the shroud, short biographies and descriptions of the activities of scientists and researchers of various disciplines dealing with the shroud, geographical and topographical information concerning places in any way related to it. Finally, the lexicon presents a relatively rich Polish bibliography or texts translated into Polish and related in any way to the study of the shroud. The first Polish text included is a review of a French article discussing the Turin shroud, published in 1903 in Przegląd Kościelny. This means that the presence of the topic of the shroud in Polish academic discourse predates the establishment of the Second Polish Republic (1918 – 1939).

„Foreword to English Edition”, in: Sindonological lexicon. Polish perspective and contribution, ed. K. Pilarczyk, Z. Treppa, T. Graff, Eastern and Central European Voices. Supplements  – Volume 003, series ed.: R. Mazur, M. Rosik, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Paderborn 2025, 7 [co-author: R. Mazur]
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Contents

Chapter I

Overview and specific entries

  1. The Shroud of Jesus in the New Testament
  2. Exegetical and medical aspects of Jesus’ death and their coherence with the Shroud
  3. Jewish burial customs and the Shroud
  4. Patristic, apocryphal literature and itineraries and selected artefacts about the Shroud and images of Jesus
  5. The Shroud in Constantinople
  6. Templars and the Shroud
  7. The Shroud in the de Charny family and disputes over its authenticity
  8. The Shroud in the hands of the House of Savoy
  9. The Shroud in Turin

9.1 The Confraternity of the Holy Shroud in Turin

9.2 International Sindonological Centre in Turin

9.3 Popes before the Shroud in Turin

  1. Polish Sindonological Centre
  2. Semiotics and semiology of the Shroud
  3. The Shroud in the liturgies

12.1 The Epitaphios

  1. The Shroud as a prototype for the depiction of Jesus

13.1 The Shroud and the convention of the mandylion

13.2 The Shroud and Imago Pietatis

Chapter II

Research history on the Shroud

  1. The Shroud of Turin – physical description
  2. Physical analyses of the Shroud

2.1 Photographs of the Shroud

2.2 STURP

2.3 Hypotheses of the origin of the image on the Shroud

2.4 Determination of the age of the Shroud

  1. Chemical analyses of the Shroud
    • Blood on the Shroud
  2. Polish Sindonology
  3. Comparative analyses
    • Veil of Manoppello
    • Tilma of Guadalupe
    • Sudarium of Oviedo
    • Tunic of Argenteuil
    • The Shroud and the image from the apparitions of Saint Faustina

Chapter III

Calendar of events

Chapter IV

People & Places

Argenteuil

Chmiel Jerzy

Constantinople

Dołęga-Chodasiewicz

Edessa

Enrie Giuseppe

Fanti Giulio

Fenrych Władysław

Filas Francis

Heller John

Karol Boromeusz

Karwowski Stanisław

Ładzina Wanda

Manoppello

Oviedo

Pia Secondo

Prószyński Kazimierz

Scavone Daniel C.

Schwortz Barry

Tepeyac/Guadalupe

Waliszewski Stanisław

Ziółkowski Zenon

Chapter V

Polish sindonological bibliography

Biographical notes of the authors and members of the editorial board

Source of figures

Index of persons

Index of places

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