By Jerome R Corsi

The priest. . . . introduced again to existence on an working room desk after a bad vehicle crash, Father Paul Bartholomew is haunted by means of scary visions—especially the moments whilst he turns out to inhabit the physique of Christ at Golgotha. The skeptics. . . . Dr. Stephen citadel, a brand new York urban psychiatrist and well known atheist, has equipped a world attractiveness for his ebook arguing that faith is a figment of human mind's eye. Professor Marco Gabrielli, an Italian spiritual researcher and chemist, has made a profession of debunking intended miracles, of explaining the unexplainable. The miracle. . . . for hundreds of years, despite the fact that, the Shroud of Turin has defied clinical clarification. is that this historic remnant that bears the sort of vividly distinctive pictorial illustration actually the burial fabric that wrapped Christ after he was once taken down from the move? Or is it the most important fraud ever perpetrated at the Christian neighborhood? As Father Bartholomew—newly back to his parish, the venerable St. Joseph’s Church in top Manhattan—celebrates Mass, blood starts off working down his arm. The horrified congregation watches him cave in to the floor, his vestments soaked with the blood pouring from wounds on his wrists. The phenomenon is called stigmata, whilst anyone seems to take place the injuries that Christ suffered upon the go. yet in Father Bartholomew’s case there's a mysterious further size: he has been reworked to resemble in nearly each actual point the Christ-like determine represented at the Shroud of Turin. nervous that Bartholomew’s case can be proved a hoax, the Vatican employs Dr. fort and Professor Gabrielli to enquire. yet for the well known psychiatrist and the skilled guy of technology either, Father Bartholomew offers the main complicated problem both has ever confronted. Dr. citadel watches in individual whereas the priest seems to be to writhe in soreness, blood spurting from wounds similar to these portrayed at the recognized shroud, and he wonders if he can also were sucked into a few form of shared hallucination. in the meantime, Professor Gabrielli—confident that he can reproduce the shroud by utilizing fabrics and strategies to be had within the center Ages—works frantically to end up that the shroud is a medieval forgery. but if the priest’s uncanny resemblance to the crucified Christ at the Shroud activates the 2 males to enquire the recognized artifact itself, every one is eventually pressured to stand mysteries that can't be defined via sheer cause by myself. it is going to be the main unsettling—and ultimately soul-wrenching—journey of discovery they've got ever undertaken. From Jerome R. Corsi, writer of the number one long island occasions bestseller The Obama country, comes a powerful, thought-provoking first novel. Grounded within the comparable type of in-depth, all-encompassing examine that has exotic Corsi’s nonfiction, The Shroud Codex plumbs the farthest reaches of technology and the human spirit.