The Shroud Codex - Jerome R. Corsi [0]
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JEROME R. CORSI, Ph.D.
THE
SHROUD
CODEX
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For
Melania M. Menzani,
who made it possible for me to view the
Shroud in Turin, Italy, in 1998;
with loving memory
and continuing appreciation
And he [Joseph of Arimathea] bought fine
linen, and took him [Jesus] down, and wrapped
him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre
which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a
stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
MARK 15:46
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CHAPTER ONE
Liberated, he felt himself moving free, as a spirit. Easily, he moved upward, leaving behind the police and ambulance sirens below, as rescue workers rushed to the scene.
Ahead of him, he could see the purest of white light streaming from a tunnel that loomed in the sky above him.
In the depths of his soul he felt a peace he had never felt before, a peace he had always longed to feel. He was happy to be free of his broken body and he felt no sorrow at leaving his life behind.
As he entered the tunnel, the luminescence surrounded him. He held his hands in front of his face and turned them so he could see his palms. He was intact. He felt his legs and they too were fine. He was uninjured.
He wondered, Why am I surprised?
Then the car crash flashed back to him in horrific detail.
He had been at the wheel of his car, applying the brakes as hard as he could. He had just come around a sharp curve to find ahead of him two semi-trucks jackknifed together in a multiple-vehicle wreck that blocked both lanes of the interstate.
As if watching a movie, he saw himself behind the wheel of his car, screaming and bracing for the impact. At sixty-five miles per hour, the hood of his car crushed back upon him like an accordion. The impact was a more powerful jolt than he had ever imagined possible.
An unexpected summer thunderstorm had sent a driving rain down on the highway and he should have known to slow down, but he was preoccupied, lost in thought, totally unaware of the oil on the highway that had turned slick in the rain, causing the trucks ahead of him to collide and jackknife, setting off a chain reaction of a dozen more vehicles.
Yes, that afternoon, Father Paul Bartholomew, a Catholic priest, died.
The police report would read that he was killed in a motor vehicle accident at 3:35 P.M. ET on August 15.
He died on the operating