Is this the Face of Jesus? Catholic Quest Presents a Talk on the Shroud of Turin

Locations

St. William Tewksbury, MA 7 pm Thursday, March 9, 2006 Holy Family Lynn, MA 7 pm Monday, March 13, 2006 St. Patrick Stoneham, MA 8 pm Friday, March 31, 2006 St. Mary Franklin, MA 7 pm Monday, April 3, 2006

For more information, please contact Eileen Wood at [email protected] or 978-858-3634.

This presentation is given by Al Righini, a retired mechanical design permitted to do extensive testing on the Shroud in 1978. In 1998 he engineer who served in the military electronics industry for over forty attended the International Research Conference in Richmond, VA and years. in 2001 the International Conference in Dallas, TX where he met many of the leading renowned experts on the Shroud study. Most recently, Mr. Righini lives in Salem, NH with his wife Carol. They have six married he attended the third International Shroud of Turin Conference held in children and eighteen grandchildren. Dallas, TX.

He is an active parishioner of St. The presentation begins with a general About six years ago, Mr. Righini Joseph Catholic Church in Salem, NH discussion of crucifixion, a brief known history, discovered that most people, even and a member of the Men of St. Joseph a detailed description of the cloth, results devout Christians, know very and the Knights of Columbus. little about the Shroud other than of the 1978 testing and most important, the the much publicized results of the Mr. Righini began taking a serious circumstantial evidence which he claims shows faulty radio carbon testing claiming interest in the Shroud of Turin about the cloth to be of medieval origin. twelve years ago after reading a rather us emphatically that the Shroud of Turin is obscure article in a local newspaper indeed the authentic burial cloth of Jesus. Upon his retirement, Mr. Righini describing it as the reputed burial prepared a rather extensive slide cloth of Jesus. Soon he began reading presentation which covers virtually every book available and viewing numerous videos regarding the Shroud all areas of Shroud study, entitled “Is this the Face of Jesus?” with the mysterious image of a crucified man. To date, Mr. Righini has given over thirty presentations to numerous In 1997 he attended his first seminar in Connecticut given by Dr. John church groups, mostly in NH, on the Shroud of Turin. Jackson, who had been the leader of the team of American scientists

Please note: The Shroud of Turin is presently kept in the royal chapel of the [Catholic] Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Although many believe that it is the burial cloth of Christ, as of this date the Vatican has not given any official pronouncement as to its authenticity. If and when there is an official pronouncement,Catholic Quest will fully accept that decision.