Andrew Dalton, professor of Shroud Studies at the Regina Apostolorum in Rome. They were accompanied by Barrie Schwortz, the original documenting photographer on the Shroud of Turin Research Project of 1978, and Fr.
White met with the president of the Archbishop of Turin’s Commission on the Holy Shroud, as well as members of the International Center for Sindonology. White were recently able to consult with both the religious and scientific communities in Turin, Italy, where the Shroud has been kept since 1578. Their work related to this fascinating relic of Christianity has been ongoing and multi-faceted. The paper will be published in the proceedings of the conference in early 2020, as well as in other international peer-reviewed sites.
The paper argues that there is contextual and linguistic evidence contained in letters of Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) surrounding the Fourth Crusade which indicate an awareness of the Shroud’s presence in Constantinople at that time. White presented a scholarly paper they co-authored entitled,“Re-Examining the Record: Contextual Analysis of a Letter by Pope Innocent III,” at the 2019 International Conference on the Shroud of Turin held in Toronto, Ontario. As a result of that initial research, Dr. Cheryl White, Professor of History at Louisiana State University at Shreveport and Curator, Museum of the Holy Shroud, were granted access to the Vatican Secret Archives to research medieval papal documents potentially related to the Shroud of Turin. Peter Mangum, Diocesan Administrator of the Diocese of Shreveport and Rector of the Cathedral of St.
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