Newsroom (18/06/2025, Gaudium Press) Two special courses will be open to all. They can be followed in person or online, for the academic year 2025/2026. It will allow participants to learn in-depth about the Holy Shroud and prepare to spread it as a means of evangelization. They will be held at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome.
Registration for both courses, which will begin in October 2025, has been open recently. One of them is the Diploma in Syndonic Studies, which can be taken in three languages: Italian, English, and Spanish. It is aimed at both clerics and laypeople, teachers and researchers, as well as journalists and, in general, all those who want to deepen, with an interdisciplinary approach, the vast and rich field of syndonic studies.
The other is the course La Sindone e l’Insegnamento della Religione Cattolica in Italian, open to teachers, students, educators, catechists, and all those who wish to deepen their knowledge of the Shroud.
Exhibition: “Who is the Man of the Holy Shroud”.
Among the activities of the Athenaeum is to raise awareness of the Shroud. The traveling exhibition “Who is the Man of the Holy Shroud?” has been a great success. It was installed in the Basilica of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini in Rome until June 10.
“The exhibition,” reads the Athenaeum’s website, “allows us to contemplate and live the Shroud with an even greater commitment, taking advantage of the time of the Jubilee Year as a path of conversion and hope. The Shroud is a unique relic that offers the possibility to contemplate and reflect on the mystery of Easter. It is proposed, therefore, as a privileged instrument for the New Evangelization”.
Project: “Diffuse exposure”.
Also present at the Athenaeum is the Othonia Research Group, which is participating in Project Diffuse Exposure. This project is bringing life-size copies of the Shroud to all the churches that request it, both in Italy and abroad.
Invitation to live in hope of the resurrection
Living this Jubilee as pilgrims of hope encourages us to make the Shroud known.
“That canvas is an invitation to live life with hope,”affirmed Cardinal Roberto Repole, Archbishop of Turin and custodian of the Shroud, “because I would say that it is also the mold of the Resurrection, of someone who is no longer in death – the tomb is empty. On the horizon of eternity, the defeats of history are not the last word. We often run the risk of confusing hope with illusion or optimism; hope, instead, acts precisely where we experience the abandonment and drama of life, and above all of death, but continue to trust. In the Christian tradition, hope is God, and what can constitute hope is to look with new eyes at the face of the Shroud: it is also the mold of the Resurrection, which says that God can intervene.”
Compiled by Dominic Joseph
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