After a fresh Jersey priest has a near-death experience he begins to resemble the image depicted within the Shroud of Turin, prompting a skeptical Vatican representative to investigate the claim and subsequently question the assumptions he has held for such a long time.

THE PRIEST…

Brought back to life with an operating space table, Dad Paul Bartholomew is haunted by visions of Christ as Golgotha. Then, as he celebrates Mass, blood starts operating down his hands. The horrified congregation pieces him about The Shroud Codex collapse, his vestments soaked in the bloodstream pouring from wounds on his wrists. Mysteriously, he today resembles in almost every physical factor the Christ-like shape represented over the Shroud of Turin.

THE SKEPTICS…

Concerned lest Bartholomew’s case be demonstrated a hoax, the Vatican uses two prominent scientists to research. Dr. Stephen Castle, an American psychiatrist, is usually renowned for his publication arguing that religious beliefs is usually a figment of human being imagination. Teacher Marco Gabrielli, an Italian religious researcher and chemist, has made a career of debunking supposed miracles, of detailing the unexplainable.

THE Magic…

For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has defied science. Is this historic remnant really Christ’s burial cloth, or the largest scams ever perpetrated? When the priest’s uncanny resemblance towards the picture over the Shroud prompts Castle and Gabrielli to research the artifact itself, each is usually finally forced to handle mysteries reason by itself cannot explain-in a journey of finding that plumbs the farthest reaches of science and the human spirit.