In this paper, the arguments of which
were presented at the recent Turin Congress, American historian
Jack
Markwardt
tries most intriguingly to resolve, and to reconcile, two
of the Shroud's most tantalizing mysteries: when and how the Shroud incurred
the fire damage now generally referred to as the "poker holes" and
when and why it was converted into the portrait known as the Image of Edessa.
In its original form the paper includes a very full set of references,
but these have been reduced for the purposes of this Newsletter. The full
text can be accessed in
Barrie Schwortz’s
web
site
.