The Holy Shroud Guild was the oldest American Shroud organization and is a ministry of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (The Redemptorists). For well over a half a century, the Holy Shroud Guild served and cooperated with the Centro in Turin, Italy.
Today under the supervision of Giorgio Bracaglia, The Holy Shroud Guild's past is the present. Archiving thousands of materials so that we can preserve the greatness of the Holy Shroud Guild and its founders that will reach out to new generation and continue the research for the future.
I welcome you to the new web site The Holy Shroud Guild, past, present and future.
Today under the supervision of Giorgio Bracaglia, The Holy Shroud Guild's past is the present. Archiving thousands of materials so that we can preserve the greatness of the Holy Shroud Guild and its founders that will reach out to new generation and continue the research for the future.
I welcome you to the new web site The Holy Shroud Guild, past, present and future.
All materials, with respect to the intellectual property (actual and potential), documentations, and collection of photographic images, from the Holy Shroud Guild is herewith granted permission to Giorgio Bracaglia.
All images and property that were transferred by the Holy Shroud Guild to Giorgio Bracaglia are copyrighted including those pertaining to electronic forms and transmissions, under existing copyright law under the new DBA Holy Shroud Guild,past,present, and future.
All images and property that were transferred by the Holy Shroud Guild to Giorgio Bracaglia are copyrighted including those pertaining to electronic forms and transmissions, under existing copyright law under the new DBA Holy Shroud Guild,past,present, and future.
OUR FOUNDERS
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REV. ADAM JOHN OTTERBEIN
Born in Reading, Pa. August 21, 1915. Joined the Redemptorist Fathers in 1936 and was ordained a priest at mount St. Alphonsus Seminary in 194l. While still a seminarian in 1938 he made some photographic copies of the Shroud of Turin for Rev. Edward A. Wuenschel, C.SS.R. who hecame one of the first internationally recognized American authorities on the Shroud. After receiving a Doctorate in Sacred Theology at Catholic Universitv in Washington, D.C. in 1945, Fr. Otterbein joined the faculty of Mount St. Alphonsus and worked with Fr. Wuenschel who had been cooperating with Dr. Paul Vignon, until the time of his death. When Father Wuenschel went to Rome to become Director of the Redemptorist Graduate School, he asked father Otterbein to continue his work on the Shroud here in America. In 1951 Fr. Otterbein with the approval of Francis Cardinal Spellman established the Holy Shroud Guild to spread accurate information about the Shroud of Turin and to encourage scholarly and scientific research. Since that time the Guild has become a national and international clearing house for Shroud information. |
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REV PETER M. RINALDI
Fr. Rinaldi became a Salesian in the United States. He is a graduate of Fordham University and of the Don Bosco International Theological Institute (then known as the Pontifical Salesian Athenaeum of Turin) inTurin, Italy. Ordained on July 7, 1935, in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, Turin, Father has held teaching and administrative positions in his Order's schools for several years. In 1948 he was appointed Pastor of Corpus Christi Church, Port Chester, NY, a position he held until September, 1977. Father first came to know about the Holy Shroud while he served as an altar boy in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist of Turin, Italy, where the relic is preserved--in the Royal Chapel behind the Chancel. His article "The Holy Shroud" was published in Sign magazine in June, 1934, and this, quite literally, was the impetus which gave birth to Shroud research in the United States. His book, I Saw the Holy Shroud, published by the Salesian Press in 1940, was the first book on the subject published in this country. |