Image of a Man: A Novel of the Shroud of Turin

The beautiful, skeptical young American Reporter, Molly Madrigal:
"Since the beginning, so many people have confronted the relic --- soldiers and saints, kings, fools, and lovers. And central to all their encounters has been the image of a man."

The old Italian priest, Monsignor Vittorio Monti, Keeper of the Shroud: "The real miracle is quite clear. Not the image of a man, and how it got there. But the Shroud itself, surviving two thousand years of man against man, not as an object---but as an inspiration. Now and for time yet unrealized."

One man wanted to steal it---to hold Christendom's priceless relic for ransom.

One man wanted to test it---to learn the secrets that had been written in its folds for centuries.

And one man wanted only to protect it.

It is the Shroud of Turin. In Image of a Man is the cornerstone of two powerful dramas: a twentieth-century story of romance, suspense and faith---and a richly detailed account of the Shroud's own journey through two thousand years of man's history from first century Jerusalem through the triumphs and tragedies of the ancient and medieval worlds; from events in Constantinople, Venice, and Paris, to Poitiers and Chambéry --- wherever those who protected the Shroud lived, loved, fought and died.

Dettagli