Joseph Marino

World-renowned Shroud of Turin scholar Joseph Marino is the author of two books and more than 60 articles and conference presentations on the Shroud, which many believe is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. A former Benedictine monk, Marino has studied every aspect of Shroud for more than 45 years and was involved in groundbreaking research, along with his late wife, Sue Benford, which convinced the late chemist Ray Rogers that the sample tested for the 1988 C-14 test was not representative of the whole cloth. That, in the eyes of many researchers, invalidated the medieval date assigned to it by the labs. Photo (2) credits: ©1978 Barrie M. Schwortz Collection, STERA, Inc. Featured Photo: Ray Rogers, John Jackson and Prof. Giovanni Riggi, members of the 1978 team that performed the first ever in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud, take a first look at the underside of the cloth in over 400 years. Secondary Photo: STURP researcher Mark Evans makes photomicrographs of the Shroud during the 1978 scienific examination of the cloth.