The Latin Sermon – 10th-Century Evidence of the Shroud of Turin | Jack Markwardt

In a captivating presentation at The Shroud of Turin 2025 International Conference & Symposium, historian Jack Markwardt presented groundbreaking research that strengthens the historical case for the Shroud of Turin.

Markwardt, author of The Hidden History of the Shroud of Turin, traces how ancient texts and Christian legends—from St. Paul’s writings to Byzantine chronicles—document the existence of a sacred burial cloth believed to bear the image of Jesus Christ. Central to his talk is a tenth-century manuscript known as the Latin Sermon, which explicitly references “a cloth upon which could be seen the transformed state of Christ’s body.”

This document, written nearly 300 years before the disputed carbon-dating results, provides a significant historical anchor for the Shroud’s authenticity. Markwardt argues that when combined with earlier evidence—from the Hymn of the Pearl to the Spanish Mozarabic Liturgy—these records outline an unbroken chain of testimony connecting the Shroud to the early church.

Through meticulous historical analysis, he invites both scholars and believers to reconsider where truth lies: not only in laboratories but within the pages of recorded history.

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