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Shroud of Turin author dies, 73
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| By BRIAN DAVIES
11 January, 2009 |
The author of one of the most influential books on the Shroud of Turin, Brendan Whiting, has died in Sydney, aged 73.
His book, The Shroud Story, published in 2006, rebutted scientific tests carried out in 1988, that interpreted the shroud as a fraud made in the 14th century.
It renewed support for the authenticity of the Shroud on the persuasive grounds that the tiny samples of cloth taken for chemical testing were remnants of nearly invisible mending done in the Middle Ages and that in 2005 further examination of the corner of the cloth from which samples for testing were taken proved to be different in chemical composition from the main part of the cloth.
It also listed the findings of an international group of 24 scientists that the Shroud of Turin was surviving evidence of the crucified Christ and an expert’s assertion that the material, weave and style of the shroud were from the Dead Sea area, dating from the first century AD.
Mr Whiting, a widower, is survived by his daughters Melanie and Linda and his son Adrian.
Melanie McHale said her father was diagnosed with leukaemia only three weeks before Christmas and had set himself to have a wonderful Christmas with his children, as they did, with the knowledge, as their father said, “that he would soon be walking with Christ”.
The retired company director’s other books include Ship of Courage, the story of HMAS Perth in World War II, and Victims of Tyranny, an account of the convict Fitzgerald bothers.
In his last days he finished a book about the children of Garabandal and Medjugorge.
After many years as a parishioner of St Martha’s Strathfield, Mr Whiting recently returned to his original parish of St Agatha’s Pennant Hills.
He died peacefully with his children at his bedside on January 2.
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