The Shroud Codex Audiobook (Free)
- George Guidall
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2010-04-13
Summary:
After a fresh Jersey priest has a near-death experience he begins to resemble the image depicted over the Shroud of Turin, prompting a skeptical Vatican representative to investigate the claim and subsequently question the assumptions he has held for such a long time.
THE PRIEST…
Brought back to life with an operating space table, Dad Paul Bartholomew is haunted by visions of Christ as Golgotha. Then, as he celebrates Mass, bloodstream starts working down his hands. The horrified congregation watches him about The Shroud Codex collapse, his vestments soaked in the blood pouring from wounds on his wrists. Mysteriously, he now resembles in nearly every physical factor the Christ-like physique represented in the Shroud of Turin.
THE SKEPTICS…
Worried lest Bartholomew’s case be proved a hoax, the Vatican employs two prominent scientists to investigate. Dr. Stephen Castle, an American psychiatrist, is definitely renowned for his book arguing that religious beliefs is usually a figment of human imagination. Professor Marco Gabrielli, an Italian religious researcher and chemist, has made a profession of debunking intended miracles, of detailing the unexplainable.
THE Magic…
For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has defied science. Is certainly this ancient remnant really Christ’s burial material, or the biggest fraud ever perpetrated? When the priest’s uncanny resemblance towards the picture over the Shroud prompts Castle and Gabrielli to investigate the artifact itself, each can be finally forced to handle mysteries reason alone cannot explain-in a trip of breakthrough that plumbs the farthest gets to of science as well as the human spirit.